Only A Desperate Actress Will Fall For A S*x-For-Role Request – Jide Kosoko

Veteran Nollywood actor, Jide Kosoko has come out to speak about the existence of s*x-for-role practice in the Nigerian movie industry.

He recently had his say while speaking on the Honest Bunch podcast, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, the women that fall for the s*x-for-role practice in Nollywood were desperate in the first place because it is a request you can absolutely say no to as soon as it is presented.

Jide added that while it is wrong to offer it as well, women always have the power to stand their ground.

His words, “If anybody introduces anything to you, if you’re not interested, say no.

I don’t understand, if I say I need you to come and warm my bed so that I can give you this role, and you say no, you don’t want, Go! You don’t want! They cannot force you to do that. If anybody introduces anything to you, if you’re not interested, say no.

But if you want that role by all means, that means you want to dance to his tune. I’m not saying he’s right to have introduced that to you but if he says it one way or the other, and you fall to it, that’s your business, how does that concern the whole world?

All these sex for roles thing, forget about it. I know some ladies that are equally coming into the industry with determination that ‘by the time I sleep with this, sleep with that, I will get my name. I know of some popular actresses, I know of even a magistrate.”

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.