Mercy Aigbe, a well-known Nollywood actress, has shared her story of almost quitting the Nigeria movie sector due to sexual harrassment.
The actress revealed this as she described the difficulties she faced on her journey to success.
Speaking during an interview with Morayo Afolabi-Brown on TVC’s chat show “Your View,” Aigbe described how, despite landing a role in a future movie, a producer made fun of her during a movie audition.
“In Surulere, I met a producer and told him how much I wanted to be an actress. He summoned to his office for an audition and informed me that he working on a movie.” Mercy Aigbe stated.
“I told him that wasn’t the character I was auditioning for, and he replied that the director said he didn’t know me, which is why he wanted me to be close to him.” Mercy stated after excelling through the first three rounds of the audition.
Then he got up to give me a big hug, I was furious and decided I no longer wanted to be an actress if that was what it required to be one, I walked away and tore the script. I was already a single mother when I quit a well-paying career to join the movie industry, so I sobbed on my way home.
Sexual harrassment has to be looked into in the Nollywood.
