"Nollywood will frustrate you" - Ronke Oshodi-Oke Gets Real about Nollywood

Ibironke Ojo widely known as Ronke Oshodi Oke is a celebrated Nigerian film actress, producer, and musician who began her acting career with the drama group, Star Parade, and became well-known after her role in the 2000 movie Oshodi Oke, which gave her the popular name Oshodi Oke. Now, in a new interview with The Nation, Ronke Oshodi Oke is getting real about Nollywood, opening up about the personal issues she encounters as an actress in the industry, as well as speaking about other general issues facing the industry. Here's what Ronke Oshodi Oke had to say.

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Speaking about some of the challenges she has faced in the Nigerian entertainment industry, as well as how she has been able to overcome them, Ronke Oshodi Oke said:

RONKE OSHODI OKE: As far as I am concerned, anything I see in this industry, I see it as part of the job. That’s why I always tell people who want to join the industry to always have an extra shock absorber, if you don’t have one, don’t come. They would criticize you and say so many things about you. And that’s why I’m always reluctant to have interviews, including this one. They would also say something that I didn’t say. The industry and the viewers would always frustrate you, even the journalist. So anytime I see anything that wants to frustrate me, I just see it as something that comes with the job. Anything that comes will go, I take life so easily.

Then, speaking about bigger issues that face the industry at large, Ronke Oshodi Oke said:

RONKE OSHODI OKE: To God be the glory, we have changed for the better, now the equipment and locations we use are way better. Before, if we went to a location, we would have to start begging people for houses, but it’s no longer that way now we have chalets that we even rent out. The only thing that I will need the government to do for us is the issue of piracy. Before when we were doing CD, it was on the high side. Now we moved to YouTube and cinemas and people still have the guts to pirate that kind of film. Producing a cinema film costs a lot of money, pre-production, production and even post-production. Even if the producer does not curse you, the person’s eleda will curse you. I don’t understand how people behave sometimes. So I’m hoping the government can help us one way or the other. Because I know if they catch them now it’s about 10,000 naira bail which anybody can pay and go but if you give them about five years imprisonment, it would help reduce it just drastically so that’s what I think.

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