{"id":90590,"date":"2023-08-10T12:32:30","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T12:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/08\/10\/nollywood-actors-are-underpaid-actor-cries\/"},"modified":"2023-08-10T12:32:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T12:32:30","slug":"nollywood-actors-are-underpaid-actor-cries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/08\/10\/nollywood-actors-are-underpaid-actor-cries\/","title":{"rendered":"Nollywood Actors Are Underpaid\u2013 Actor Cries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Deyemi Okanlawon <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nollywood actor, Deyemi Okanlawon says the major challenge for actors in their movie industry is remuneration.<br \/>According to him, actors in the Nigerian movie industry are criminally underpaid.<\/p>\n<p>Okanlawon stated this during an MTV Base Africa program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think [Nollywood] actors are not being paid enough. And the other hand, we are not financially literal enough to use what we do have and maximize it to protect ourselves in the future,\u201d the Dailypost quoted him.<\/p>\n<p>Nollywood is currently the most thriving movie industry on the African continent and one may think that actors are doing very well and are being paid very well but Deyemi says no, that is not the case.<\/p>\n<p>Another actor, Etim-Effiong collaborated with Deyemi\u2019s claim saying, \u201cI also think that the way the industry works, it doesn\u2019t provide enough for the actors to work with both financially and otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor example, I don\u2019t think actors are given enough time to prepare for their roles. 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