{"id":4012,"date":"2020-05-12T17:05:50","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T17:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maadhouze.com\/?p=4012"},"modified":"2020-05-12T17:05:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T17:05:50","slug":"i-came-to-nollywood-as-a-total-stranger-funmi-awelewa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=4012","title":{"rendered":"I Came To Nollywood As A Total Stranger &#8211; Funmi Awelewa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Nollywood\u00a0Actress, Funmi Awelewa, aka Morili, has\u00a0revealed that she entered the industry\u00a0as a total stranger and as a result\u00a0got a lot of rejection and discouraging words from practitioners.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Speaking during an interview, she said,\u201cWhen I started acting, I got a lot of rejection and discouraging words from people. Some persons even told me that acting was not my calling. I also begged one of my senior colleagues to feature me in his movie but he turned me down and asked for sex.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI came to Nollywood as a total stranger. Everything that I am today is by God\u2019s grace; nobody can take glory for my success. If I relied on the help of a godfather, I wouldn\u2019t be as hard-working as I am because I would have depended so much on the person.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany celebrated actors who attained enviable heights did so with the help of hard work. However, having godfathers made it easy for some people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Morili also said that fame had earned her more than she ever dreamt of though she didn\u2019t have a godfather to lean on when she started acting and producing films.<\/p>\n<p>She added, \u201cActing is worth the sacrifices that I have made for it. Acting has made me sit and socialise with great people beyond my imagination.<\/p>\n<p>The actress also revealed that she learnt her signature Yoruba accent in secondary school after being bullied by her schoolmates.<\/p>\n<p>She said, \u201cMy thick Yoruba (Ibadan) accent still amazes me because I lived in a good environment in Ibadan. I attended a good primary school but when I got into a government secondary school, I mingled with people and that made me forget where I came from.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nollywood\u00a0Actress, Funmi Awelewa, aka Morili, has\u00a0revealed that she entered the industry\u00a0as a total stranger and as a result\u00a0got a lot of rejection and discouraging words from practitioners. Speaking during an interview, she said,\u201cWhen I started acting, I got a lot of rejection and discouraging words from people. Some persons even told me that acting was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[649,211],"class_list":["post-4012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-funmi-awelewa","tag-nollywood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012"}],"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=4012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4014,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012\/revisions\/4014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}