Actor, Adedimeji Lateef, has revealed that he was once paid as low as five thousand Naira for playing a lead role in a movie.<\/p>\n
The actor said in a post on his Instagram page on Tuesday as he counts down to his birthday.<\/span><\/p>\n Going down memory lane, the actor revealed his struggles to make a mark in acting and how he had been discouraged and insulted.<\/span><\/p>\n He said, \u201cThe journey and story of my life was never smooth but this Abeokuta-born and Lagos-bred boy never gave up!<\/span><\/p>\n I was just an helpless young boy who does his things and make people laugh unintentionally, to the point that I was picked up in secondary school by a non governmental organisation whose main aim is to train young people majorly through acting, dance and music. <\/span><\/p>\n Memories of when I gained admission into the university and still didn\u2019t give up, I remember the days I skipped classes to follow this dream of mine, to the year I graduated from UNI 2007\/2008 , this stubborn boy still didn\u2019t give up .<\/span><\/p>\n “Memories of the days I borrowed money to go on movie set, borrow clothes to wear on set even though I wasn\u2019t getting paid, I remember begging for money and food to survive. Memories of the multiple times I got rejected, insulted, ridiculed and bullied that acting is not my career path and that I\u2019ll never make it in this field that I choose. I remember the times I almost gave up on myself and the career, I remember crying endlessly and told myself it\u2019s better to die.<\/span><\/p>\n “Memories of the times I walked hours to get on set and rehearsals simply because I had no T-fare. I remember when I had to be a camera boy, wash oga\u2019s cars. Then the times I finally started getting paid 1k, 2k, 5k for a lead role, I remember receiving the payments with so much joy, happiness and gratitude.”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Actor, Adedimeji Lateef, has revealed that he was once paid as low as five thousand Naira for playing a lead role in a movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6318],"class_list":["post-11594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-stardom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11596,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11594\/revisions\/11596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}