Veteran Nollywood actor, Tony Umez has shared that he is still being owed by some filmmakers in the industry.
Tony, who came as a guest on the Rubbin Minds show, one hosted by media personality, Ebuka Obi-Uchendu opened up about his struggles when he started to get paid as an actor.
He said;
Money is what got me into acting in the first place. The model I had in my head then was the Hollywood model where you hear somebody made about 20 million dollars doing one movie and I was like “Whoa!”, it was wonderful to me, there was serious potential.
Then I entered Nollywood and my first movie, I played the lead in my very first movie. I played Chief Ikanga and I was to be paid N23,000 but up till tomorrow.
So I felt it wasn`t an industry I would survive in so I left for about two years. I was doing private tutoring, I was making some money from that that kept me going.
After about 2 years, I came back and did the movie, The Princess where I starred alongside Zack Orji before I hit it big with Divergent and they paid me for that one.
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