One of Nollywood’s highest paid and sought after actress cum business woman, Ebube Nwagbo, has revealed what upcoming actress have to do to avoid being approached by directors or producers for sexual pleasures. Speaking to YawNaija she addressed the issue of sexual harassment in Nollywood industry and gave tips on how to bypass it.
Ebube Nwagbo said:
“Before now, Nollywood started as a male dominated industry; the producers and crew, but these days, female producers like myself are gradually taking over. Back then, people feel, you must have to sleep with a producer to become popular. I’m not ruling out that s*xual harassment doesn’t exist anymore but if you put yourself in that situation, you’ll surely find yourself doing what you ordinarily wouldn’t want to do.“
She continued:
“You have to be very talented or qualified for the job in question if you don’t want to be sexually harassed, because being talented gives you leverage to secure the role” .
Finalising:
“They are lots of people that just want to jump in and become an actress overnight. No, it doesn’t work that way. It takes lots of talent, dedication, patience, tolerance and what have you. So, when you don’t have the talent and want to be an actress by all means, then you are prone to such kinds of harassment to get what you want. It takes creativity and attitude to be a script interpreter, that’s the basic. Producers can’t act their films by themselves, so definitely, if you’re good, you’ll surely get roles without sleeping around.”
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