"Some producers just want to produce anything to be called filmmakers"

Veteran Nollywood comic actor, Charles Awurum has unleashed revealed some of the challenges he had while he was an amateur in Nollywood.

The Thespian unleashed this during an interview with media personality, Emmanuel Ojo where he disclosed that some young actresses bribe some producers just to take the lead role in a movie.

When asked about challenges he and other actors faced in the movie industry, Charles answered:

“The first one is money – money to produce movies. That’s why most producers produce nonsense because they don’t have money to produce good movies.

Because of that factor, they tend to offer something terrible to the actors and most of us who have come this far wouldn’t want to take just anything to come on set. It’s either you pay well and we act for you or you don’t pay and we stay away.

Most people are no longer ready to produce good films. They just want to produce anything to be called filmmakers.

They just get any script, any story, go on set and use whatever amount they have because people are so hungry and desperately want to be famous.

Some people even pay to act. They are not given food on location, no accommodation; they are not taken care of at all. That has destroyed the Nollywood of our dream.

That’s not what we thought we would have been at this time but we thank God that there are still some good filmmakers who still produce good movies and but they are very few.

I would rather stay at home than go to act in any movie that will go into the market and make a mess”