Nollywood actress, Rita Dominic has revealed that she was
banned from Nollywood.
The actress, 45 stated this during an interview with Chude
Jideonwo.
According to her, the silent ban from Nollywood was one of
her low moments in life.
Speaking further, Rita said that she was bent on making changes for herself and that was what earned her the ban and she never addressed it publicly.
In her words;
“So let me tell you something, I don’t know if I’ve said
this publicly. Many years ago, we worked a lot with the marketers and they
weren’t used to talking to management, they were used to easy access, direct
access to us. So I started working with a manager which is my business partner
Mildred because she manages my career as well and it was a challenge.
But I was bent on changing things at least for myself cos I
felt like we needed some sort of structure if we wanted to grow – if we wanted
this to go further or advance our careers, we needed to start letting them
understand that we have management. So obviously, they didn’t like it but they
didn’t.
Let me put it this way: I think they gave me a silent ban
without saying anything. I used to trickle down certain things that they would
say, a few of them, and I can understand. You know, people don’t like change
sometimes especially when it’s been the same thing for so long and it has
worked for you. I didn’t get work for a long time!
Before then, Mildred and I had been talking. She had already
started producing and we had toyed with the idea of forming a company together
and shooting productions and adverts. So when that (ban) lingered for a while,
I said you know what?
Let’s go ahead with this thing – let’s produce content.
That’s how I was put on this other trajectory and I started producing. I did my
first film, ‘The Meeting’ and I wasn’t going to do the role but we ended up
doing it and The Meeting became very successful.
So the (ban) in a way was a blessing. Sometimes, the powers
that be (the universe) may be moving you in a direction you don’t want because
you want things to happen in a certain way. But it might actually let you
achieve the same goal through a different route.”
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