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Entertainment of Saturday, 18 April 2020

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I started my acting career by running errands at movie locations – Ijebu

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Actor, Tayo Amokade, aka Ijebu, may be having it good in his career now but his journey to fame has not been devoid of challenges.

In an interview with Saturday Beats, the comic actor recalled some of the challenges he encountered when he started out as an actor. He said, “I faced different challenges when I first got into the industry. On the other hand, I won’t really call them challenges because one needs to undergo some form of training. When I was in Ibadan, I trained at the Authentic School of Drama owned by actor and filmmaker, Muyiwa Ademola. I trained under him for seven years. He trained me on camera movements, facing the crowd and other things. The training helped me a lot. One of the challenges I faced was having to buy food for people that I knew I was older than just because they got into the industry before me.

“I said on my Instagram Live video recently that anybody coming into the industry has to be patient, focused and prayerful. One could spend 10 years in the industry without succeeding and one may spend only six months and people would like you. You also need to be humble.”

On his relationship with his female fans, the Ogun State-born actor said, “It is good to marry a wife that was destined for one. My wife supports me a lot. Whenever I tell her I am going on set, she knows that I would be on movie locations. On my Instagram Live videos, fans tell me they love me and different people say they want to know me better. I cannot fight them; they are my female fans. At the end of the day, I can become good friends with them and also advise them. It’s not compulsory I have affairs with them. We can still be of help to one another in the future.”

Ijebu, who lost his father last year, noted that he missed his advice. He added, “I miss his advice. He usually advised me whenever I visited home and he would recite my praise poetry (oriki) .When I was growing up, they didn’t speak the Ijebu dialect to me. My brothers urged my parents to train me with ‘pure’ Yoruba. But when God said it was time, I had to start calling some of my friends who spoke the language so well. My dad also tutored me on how to speak the dialect well. I really miss him a lot.”