If You’re Always Scared Of What People Will Say, You’re Not Ready To Live Life – Yul Edochie

Nollywood actor, Yul Edochie has come out to advice people who are worried about how others perceive them.

He recently had his say via his social media page, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, after a pregnant woman wanted to take a picture with him on set, people around actually warned her not to post the picture on social media, else she would be attacked.

Yul added that he told her to post in regardless because nothing they will say has not been heard before.

His words, “Yesterday I was filming in a hospital and a pregnant woman wanted to take a picture with me.

The people there told her not to post the picture on social media, that people will say this and that. I said to her ‘post it, post on social media and any other media you like, let them say. What will they say that has never been said before? Post it.

In this life, if you’re scared of what people will say, then you’re not ready to live life.”

WOW.

Nollywood is a sobriquet that originally referred to the Nigerian film industry. The origin of the term dates back to the early 2000s, traced to an article in The New York Times. Due to the history of evolving meanings and contexts, there is no clear or agreed-upon definition for the term, which has made it a subject to several controversies.

The origin of the term “Nollywood” remains unclear; Jonathan Haynes traced the earliest usage of the word to a 2002 article by Matt Steinglass in the New York Times, where it was used to describe Nigerian cinema.

Charles Igwe noted that Norimitsu Onishi also used the name in a September 2002 article he wrote for the New York Times. The term continues to be used in the media to refer to the Nigerian film industry, with its definition later assumed to be a portmanteau of the words “Nigeria” and “Hollywood”, the American major film hub.

Film-making in Nigeria is divided largely along regional, and marginally ethnic and religious lines. Thus, there are distinct film industries – each seeking to portray the concern of the particular section and ethnicity it represents. However, there is the English-language film industry which is a melting pot for filmmaking and filmmakers from most of the regional industries.