‘My Pastor Almost Ruined My Acting Career’, Reveals Actor Yemi Solade

Veteran Nollywood actor, Yemi Solade, has opened up astir a long-standing clash with his erstwhile church, revealing however a quality implicit Sunday movie roles pushed him distant from organised religion.

The 64-year-old thespian made the revelation during a caller occurrence of the ‘Honest Bunch’ podcast, recalling a 2013 incidental that, according to him, marked the turning constituent successful his religion attendance.

Solade explained that a religion person had instructed him to cull movie offers that would marque him enactment connected Sundays, insisting the time indispensable beryllium dedicated strictly to worship.

He described the directive arsenic unrealistic for idiosyncratic successful the amusement manufacture and said it interfered with his livelihood.

“I’d been told successful the religion that I should archer producers not to telephone maine for enactment connected Sundays. And I cursed the pastor,” Solade recounted.

“From that happening you said I shouldn’t bash connected Sunday is what I enactment my manus successful my pouch and driblet successful church. So erstwhile volition I person clip to work? You privation to ruin my career?”

The histrion argued that his withdrawal from religion activities has fixed him greater peace, challenging the wide content that regular attendance was cardinal to spiritual well-being.

“Rather, I person peace. I bash well. Because each time of my life, erstwhile I was going to church, I got disturbances,” helium said.

Solade besides criticised the civilization of sacrificing idiosyncratic resources to prolong spiritual institutions, narrating however an aged technician erstwhile diverted portion of the wealth helium (Solade) gave him for repairs to religion donations.

“That blessing is excavation now. It’s my wealth you went to driblet there,” helium quipped.

Beyond religion, the histrion weighed successful connected Nollywood’s origin, challenging the wide presumption that the manufacture began with the 1992 Igbo deed ‘Living successful Bondage’.

According to him, location video accumulation and tv dramas were thriving successful the 1980s. “The archetypal movie you telephone location video was really produced astir 1988 by Ade Ajiboye, Big Abbas. ‘Shosho Meji’ came earlier ‘Living successful Bondage’,” helium asserted, adding that classics similar ‘Things Fall Apart’ were aired connected tv successful the mid-80s.

Solade further argued that portion the South-East has made important contributions to Nollywood, it was precocious successful adopting theatre arts arsenic a ceremonial world subject compared to different regions.

“When I was a pupil successful Ife, we had the Nigerian University Theatres Festival. Only six universities participated then, and nary was successful the East,” Solade recalled.