Funke Akindele reveals her bitter experience in Nollywood as a young actress

Popular actress, Funke Akindele, has revealed the torture she went through when she newly got into the film industry.
She said she was denied roles for years and that all she occasionally got were ‘waka paa’ minor roles.
As a result, she used to cry, as in weeping.
She noted in a reflection on Youtube, as reported by ‘Saturday Puch’:
“I want you to look at me and my story. When I started acting in 1998, I remember how I struggled to get up there, I got a lot of “no’s”. I was the ‘queen’ of auditions and ‘wakapass’ roles. I would read so well and people will clap, I will be so excited and would think when I get the list, I would get a supporting role. But all I got were roles like church extracts. I remember crying on those occasions.
“But my mother would tell me that I’ve got the passion and it is a God-given talent. She would give me money for my transport fare; sometimes I would trek to some places then take a bus to meet up.
“I could count the number of shoes I had then, maybe two or three. But today, the story has changed. Things changed for me positively.
“After ‘I need to know’, I didn’t get any more roles, I went down; I got back to attending auditions and lobbying, calling people and knocking on doors but none opened. I felt I had lost my chance.”