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Veteran actor and filmmaker, Ejike
Asiegbu, is not in a happy mood at the moment due to lack of unprofessionalism
in the motion picture industry as well as the abduction of the Chibok
schoolgirls. In this interview with Sam Anokam, Asiegbu bares his
mind on the many controversies in the film industry, his career and other
issues
What has been happening to you lately?
Nothing much, I’m just there watching as usual and also
doing my private things. I am in one way or the other contributing to the
development of our dear country.
What about the movie industry?
By the special grace of God, I’m one of the forerunners
of the industry, an experienced one for that matter. I am saddened by a lot of
occurrences, which are quite unprofessional. These days, I hear that actors pay
to act; most predominantly women pay to act and they do it with impunity. You
can imagine girls who throw caution to the wind, give money to people who claim
they are producers just because they want to be popular at all cost. It goes to
show you how morally bankrupt the industry has become and professionally so
much needs to be done to arrest the situation.
It is unfortunate a lot of unprofessional things are
happening. People now pay for their transportation, accommodation, feed
themselves and, at the same time, pay for roles, that’s what I hear. That is
not how a well thought out professional body or industry should operate. I
began to ask what the guilds and association are doing to curb the excesses of
these willy-nilly producers who are cashing in on these helpless people because
of their hunger to become popular someday. And these are some of those things
that I think are wrong and I will never lend my dignity to such excesses and it
further gives the industry a bad name. It is a minus for the industry as a
matter of fact.
