I was paid N4,000 as lead actor in 2014 – Lateef Adedimeji

Nollywood actor Lateef Adedimeji shared his experience of being underpaid despite playing lead roles in movies.

The ‘Jagun Jagun’ star revealed that he was paid as little as N4,000 for a lead role in 2014, but started receiving N100,000 to N200,000 for a role in 2015.

Adedimeji made these revelations on the ‘Deep Dive’ podcast hosted by comedian Teju Babyface.

Lateef Adedimeji said, “If I tell people that I wasn’t collecting N100,000, N200,000 until 2015/16, a lot of people would not believe me.

“Before then, the highest I collected for a lead role was either N4,000, N5,000, or N10,000. I was paid that low back in 2014 because it was more like a learning process.”