Popular Yoruba, Nollywood actor and politician, Yemi
Solade, has blamed practitioners of the act for the poor and depreciating value
in the movie industry .
Yomi who
used the Yoruba industry as a clear example, outlined the existence of various
groups and caucuses as the major problem affecting the growth of the industry.
In a chat
with E24-7 magazine, the fair skinned actor challenged the movie makers on
whose right they act upon by assembling or organizing groups all in the name of
training them in the craft of acting and then collect various amount of money.
According
to him, “I don’t see why any professional movie maker should want to assemble
any group. I don’t understand how they bring in people from the streets who
should go to a formal school to be trained, and they say they want to train
them; with which authority? Are they professionals? No, but because they have
been able to cut corners and gained popularity through cheap publicity, they
think that alone establishes them as an authority who can admit people and
train them.”
He
further pointed that with such attitudes among his colleagues, it is now what
is pushing them into politics these days just to survive.
“Going
into politics has now become a necessity; so where does professionalism come in
all of his? I can tell you that once RMD finishes his term in Delta State, he
is coming back to act fully. The media is also to blame because you guys
celebrate mediocrity a lot, and you’re not helping the industry with that.
Anybody can run up to you that he wants to celebrate 20 years on stage with
Ankara and Fuji music. You don’t know where they are coming from, yet you write
stories for them making people believe they’ve really achieved,” he challenged.
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