Multiple award-winning filmmaker, Kunle Afolayan has disclosed that his late dad Adeyemi Afolayan discouraged him and his siblings from acting or filmmaking.
The filmmaker made this known during an interview with Chude Jideonwo recently.
Afolayan revealed that his late father, popularly known as “Adelove” who is highly regarded as one of the pioneers of filmmaking in Nigeria, discouraged him and his siblings from going into the film industry, making them believe that it yielded little or no profit in the long run. He added that his father preferred him and his siblings to study law instead.
“My father completely discouraged any of us from going into acting or filmmaking. He said there was no money in it. ‘Just go and be a lawyer. Do you want to be running around like I’m running around?
“Those were things I learned which helped me structure the business side of what I do because I don’t want to end up like them,” he said.
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The renowned actor also stated that the lapses from his father’s production, motivated him to venture into filmmaking.
“I remember after he passed then Nollywood came and then I would see these films with beautiful stories then I would be comparing them to the film of my dad and Ogunde with the production quality but how come the audio is bad? How come the makeup is lousy? How can we do this?
“I said ok I want to be a filmmaker, I never said I wanted to be an actor. I went to Tade Ogidan and he said ok when we have something I will call you. I also went to Tunde Kilani, he said who are you to say you want to make a film?
” That your dad was a filmmaker doesn’t make you one, you have to learn it. Go to school and complete your education and then when they wanted to do ‘Saworo Ide’ in 1998, he called me to come and I auditioned. I played the role eventually but still wanted to make a film.”
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