Joke Silva. |
Today, all you hear is that this female
actor has bought a house in Banana Island, tomorrow, another has bought a
duplex and a Range Rover car in Lekki, next tomorrow, another just bought and
moved into a Porsche house in Ikoyi and one begins to wonder if truly, this is
how lucratic acting has become there days and you still see the very VETERANS, I
mean individuals whose sweats made and still making the industry what it has
become today living from hand to mouth, then you wonder if it is just acting
that is paying for all the houses and exotic cars these actors, especially the
ladies flaunt on Social Media.
The rise amongst youths the desire to emulate
and imitate our actors whom they see as their role models makes the matter
worse, most especially when they start seeing these fake and unexplainable lifestyles
by Nollywood actors as ways of life and then, the wish to chase what is not
chasing them by joining whatever it is that is giving them such very flamboyant
lives becomes worrisome amongst the youths.
It is no longer news therefore that the
industry, I mean, the Movie Industry has been in a LULL for a very long time
now and the funds to make movies are no longer available, thereby creating a
huge gap filled by those who cut corners with what we call “ASABA MOVIE
INDUSTRY” today where actors go as low as paying producers to be featured in
their movies and these actors are same people buying houses and exotic cars in highbrow
areas in Lagos and you are forced to ask “WHAT EXACTLY THESE ACTORS DO FOR A
LIVING” to afford such flamboyance?
Painful is the fact that you will see a
female actor who has not been featured as “LEAD” in any movie since she started
acting, nor done more than 20 movies her entire career life in the industry
showcasing such affluence and wealth that are simply irritating, painting the
industry in bad light amongst those who labored to raise the stakes they are
supposed to help harness.
Infact, during the launching of the
Nollywood Healthcare or Health Insurance Scheme by the leadership of the AGN in
Lagos, a reporter asked one of the stakeholders why an unparticular “VERY
UNSUCCESSFUL FEMALE ACTOR” was doing in the pictures sent out and she said, “Well,
we just want to help her chop that money wey she dey collect from men since she
just bought a house in Lekki and a new Range Rover to go with it” and this is an
actor who cannot express herself to convince even a 2year old that she is an
actor.
In a recent interview by Our Darling
Veteran Betty Irabor’s Genevieve Magazine, Veteran actor, “Mummy Joke Silva”
spoke on sundry issues and specifically corrected the notion which is gradually
putting huge challenge on the image of practitioners in the sector about how
these actors make the wealth they throw at us on Social Media from and these
were what she had to say.
“DON’T BE
DECEIVED BY WHAT GOES ON SOCIAL MEDIA. OBVIOUSLY THERE IS SOMETHING ELSE SUCH
ACTORS ARE DOING, PERHAPS OTHER BUSINESSES TO SHORE UP THEIR INCOME. THE
REALITY IS THAT ON THE EARNING CAPACITY OF AN ACTOR IN NIGERIA, YOU CANNOT HAVE
THAT SORT OF LIFESTYLE IN THIS ECONOMY.YES, PART OF OUR INDUSTRY IS TO HAVE
GLAMOUR BUT ALSO THE OTHER PART IS TO HAVE REALITY”.
Now, with the statement
from our darling mummy Joke Silva’s interview above, one wonders how a female
actor who may not have earned more than “A Hundred Thousand Naira” in any of
the movies she had featured in be able to afford a house in Lekki or Banana Island,
when those who has been “Brand Ambassadors” to multinational companies on
countless occasions still live in rented small apartments?
What do these ladies do
to make money other than acting that is known to some of us who are industry
watchers because I am pushed to start mentioning their names one after another
and their unexplainable wealth?
Whose role models are
they actually?
Exactly what do these
FEMALE ACTORS DO TO MAKE THE KIND OF MONEY THEY SHOWCASE TO US? We want to
know.
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