Kwara State born Nollywood Yoruba Actor, Saheed Kolawole Balogun who started
acting in 1981 and has over the years, worked with most of the great actors and
actresses in Nollywood. He recently spoke to ThisDay Live on his career and marital squabbles.
See excerpts from the interview below and share your
thoughts:
I have always wanted
to be an actor...
Yes, from the word go, I knew acting was the way to go for
me. For me, acting is a spirit. It’s a passion. Acting is me. I am acting, it’s
my dream. Someone once said to me that since I know a lot of politicians, I
should be a contractor and I said there is a difference between governance,
construction and creativity. So, because Governor
Aregbesola is my god-father and Remo
Adikwu Bakare is my god-mother doesn’t automatically mean I should be
collecting contracts.
If you look at it, entertainment is too broad. There’s
music, acting, reality shows, compeers, and so much more. So, it’s too broad
and I am still exploring it. I really don’t have time to start thinking if
anything else away from entertainment. Today I speak Yoruba, Igbo, English and
Hausa languages fluently and I am planning to learn French also.
Marital talks
distract my creativity….
Well, the situation is that marital talks distract my
creativity. Too much talk on this marriage issue did not allow people see what
I can deliver in terms of my talent and creativity. It’s not as if I’m shy to
talk about it, but the truth is that we have too many other burning issues to
talk about rather than dwell on this marriage issue. And people keep saying
people want to know what really happened. Well, help me tell the people that
want to know that I’ll rather talk of business and money instead of marriage. I
want to move forward and talk about how to tackle piracy and move our industry
forward.
Dealing with female
admirers….
I handle them the way they should be handled. It is not
every female that says they love your films really wants to date you. So, I
take them the way they come, because in anything you do, women are the first
set of people to appreciate you. They can ruin and make you. So, appreciate
them and give them the respect they deserve. I just take them the way they
come.
Practical ways to
deal with piracy…
I’ve said it several times. We have senators and House of
Representatives members in charge of entertainment. What laws have they passed
regarding the industry in the last 12 years?
All these 33 associations we have should leave ego aside and
come together so that we can have one voice and collectively request for that
legislation that can save our industry, instead of going one after the other,
to lobby for peanuts.
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