Why I Quit Trying to Make it as a Serious Actor - Mr. Macaroni

Right now in Nigeria, if you are running down the names of successful skit makers and content creators, your list would most definitely be incomplete without the mention of Mr. Macaroni.

Debo Adedayo aka Mr. Macaroni has found a lot of success as a skit maker and content creator, but that is not what he initially intended to be. In fact, before he entered into the industry, he rose his nose at the job as he believed it to be something beneath him as a theatre-trained thespian. You see, Mr. Macaroni actually went to theatre school and studied to become an actor.

So the question for today is how and why did he go from wanting to become a "serious actor" to becoming a content creator and skit maker. Well, during his stop at Cool FM Nigeria, Mr. Macaroni explained all about it and how it happened. Here's what he said.

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"How and why did you go from studying theatre arts to becoming a skit maker?"

Mr. Macaroni: Depression and frustration led me to content creation. As a matter of fact, I swore I would never do content creation. I was looking at it at the time and looking at everyone doing it like "wetin be all this? wetin these ones dey do?" As a thespian, there's a lot of things they teach you. As a theatre arts person, you just feel like some things, what is all this one? You want to do stage, big performances, cinema projects. You know, work that defines you as a thespian. So then I was just looking at Broda Shaggi, Lasisi, Twyce, Maraji, and saying "what are all these ones doing? Mschewww".

So then I started going for auditions back to back, casting calls, what have you, and these people were actually making me doubt my own talent. Because in theatre school, from the moment I got into school, I think from 200 level, every best actor award na me dey collect am. So coming outside of school now, going for audition, I go go for audition, they go come dey look me as if wetin this one dey do? I said ah ah, shey they deceive me for school? Abi wetin dey happen for here. So you know it was so frustrating. So after a while, I looked at these guys (the skit makers), I now looked at them again. I now said "e be like say wetin dem dey do no too bad like that." So I just started. At the time I didn't even know what I was doing, I was just frustrated. And that's how it started. That was late 2019 I started creating those videos. It was when I started using that agbada that everything changed.

And now look at Mr. Macaroni. His skit making and content creating has put him boldly on the map and he is now featuring in the cinema movies he always dreamed of. This is a typical example of if one door closes, try another one. If he had never tossed his pride aside and started skit making, who knows where he would be today?

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