“I lost a vital role for refusing to sleep with the man in charge” Nollywood veteran, Ruby Ojikor recounts her early struggles in Nollywood

Nollywood sensational actress, Ruby Ojiakor has recounted how she lost a vital movie role for refusing to sexually make out with the movie owner at the early peak of her career.

According to her revelation, she disclosed that she was close to securing a life-changing movie role but was restrained by the sexual taste of the man in charge who yearned for the taste of her endowment.

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Despite securing and featuring in some scenes of the undisclosed movie, she was however stripped of her peak movie role for refusing to ‘Get Down’ with the active filmmaker.

Finalising her ordeal, she lamented her displeasure with the current view of ‘séx for role’ growing vastly in Nollywood sparking reactions among concerned civilians.

Her words:

“I remember when I was called for a job in Enugu and we shot it for two days. I was supposed to be the female lead character in the movie. The marketer that owned the job wanted to ‘get down’ with me. But, I told him I could not do such a thing. I thought that since I had started shooting some scenes in the movie, nothing could be done to me and he cannot cancel my scenes, which I shot with Ghanaian actor, Majid Michel, then.”

“I also felt Majid would not want to re-act the scenes he had done before. Those factors made me think that the producer’s decision to change me would be fruitless. But to my surprise, I was not called to continue my scenes. When I challenged the production manager, he said I should not be angry because someone else had been called to play the role. I was not given any reason for being removed from that project.”

“I asked if Majid agreed to re-shoot those scenes, and I was told he was paid extra money to do so. That was how I lost a movie role because I refused to sleep with the owner of the movie. The scenes I had already shot were wiped out from that movie. That was a painful experience, but I have moved on.”

“I don’t think anything can be done to stop sexual advances from filmmakers. Some people have tried to report them, but it has not yielded any positve result. When an actress reports an offender, she is practically setting herself up for a fall. The offenders know themselves, and if one person reports any of them, they would gang up against that actress in the industry, and she would not be getting movie roles. It is just like a cartel. The best thing is to train oneself and be firm that even if others are doing it, one will not do it. That was what I did.”