Why I Don't Miss Acting - Tonto Dikeh

Nollywood actor, musician, and politician Tonto Dikeh sat down for a new interview with ace interviewer Chude on his show #WithChude and Tonto Dikeh got very candid. As we all know, Tonto has more or less stopped acting at this point and is currently focusing on politics. During the interview, Tonto was asked if she misses acting, to which she responded that she doesn't and explained why. Here is what she said.

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During the interview Tonto Dikeh was asked "Do you miss acting?", to which she said:

No. Because I'm an opportunist with this thing called acting or entertainment. For God, he has ordained that step already, but for me, I was just swimming in the swimming pool. I mean, I was a church girl going to be a pastor. I was supposed to be a pastor, I still might be, depends on where God is taking me to. So I was swimming and some people just came and pushed me and said "Oh you look so good, we like the way you are, your mannerisms. We think you're fierce, we think you can make entertainment. We have this audition upstairs, come and take it." And that's how it is. I never bought a form, I never filled a form, never did anything. I went, they said "act as though you were crying" and that was the first time I ever attempted acting. Immediately they said it, I just started to cry, I just started to do what they said. Immediately they said stop, I started to clean my eye, I was walking away and they said "come come come we need you". I'm from Port Harcourt, if you know Port Harcourt people those days, we were not big on entertainment, it was not our thing. We loved money. 17 year old girl had fleets of land, properties. A 20 year old girl had an oil well. We were more or less oil inclined so we were not about entertainment, although we knew entertainers, we've seen movies. But it was not my thing. So I just felt like it was an opportunity. I just took it. I just took it one day at a time. I never knew where it was leading to. So it was not something I planned. I was opportune to be in that business. Like I said, I've done that. It was a channel for me to climb the ladder, and that's what it is.

"Same thing with the music?"

Oh music I just thought I had a chance. With music, I felt popularity would work. I felt my numbers would work. But I didn't know you had to be more talented than the numbers. I failed woefully in music, but I still don't regret it because it's something I laugh back like oh my god! When I say I failed in music, it's not because my music were not good, but I felt like I lost confident to move on because I feel the music was consistency. If I had continued with that, I would have made good music. I would have made danceable music, I would have made listenable music. So that's where the failure is coming from, not because I did a bad song, no. I quit on myself.

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