Nollywood actor Ayoola Ayolola, known for his role in the SGIT series, opened up about his journey into acting in a recent interview with Chude Jideonwo.
He shared that he always had a passion for acting but only decided to pursue it when he hit a low point financially.
Ayoola Ayolola admitted that he realized he had a talent for acting and finally decided to pursue his passion when he reached a point where he needed to earn a living.
He said, “I always knew I could act. I had this mentality that as a stage performer, I was acting as well. I always knew that no matter what happened before going on stage, I would go there and I would deliver. The fact that I was doing that gave me the courage to try acting. But the decision didn’t come until I was so broke and so hungry.”
Not hungry for success o, I was physically hungry for days and I couldn’t afford things,” he said.
“I was borrowing from here to pay for this and borrowing from there to pay for that. It was a mess. I had my car that I had won and the leverage and whatever but liquid cash I didn’t have. I wasn’t smart enough at the time to convert the things I had at the time into sustainability financially. So I was bored, broke, and hungry,” he told Chude.
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