{"id":46688,"date":"2021-12-24T16:12:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T16:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/entertainment\/?p=46688"},"modified":"2021-12-24T16:12:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T16:12:32","slug":"linda-osifo-breaks-down-while-recounting-her-first-few-years-in-nollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/entertainment\/2021\/12\/24\/linda-osifo-breaks-down-while-recounting-her-first-few-years-in-nollywood\/","title":{"rendered":"Linda Osifo Breaks Down While Recounting Her First Few Years In Nollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nigerian actress Linda Osifo<\/a> broke into the Nollywood industry when she she had her debut in the 2015 EbonyLife Production, Desperate Housewives Africa<\/em>. Since then, her fame only got better and Linda has starred in such blockbuster movies as Merry Men 2, Unroyal, Devil in Agbada<\/em>, and more. Now in a new emotional interview with BBC Pidgin, Linda is talking about her early days in the industry as well as giving out advice to younger women and men trying to enter the industry. This is what Linda said.<\/p>\n

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Speaking to BBC Pidgin (in an interview that was entirely in pidgin and has been translated below to regular English for easier reading<\/em>), Linda said:<\/p>\n

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The age that I realized that acting is what I want to do is when I was the age of 16 years old. At that age I was involved in the school drama. Any time there was a play in the church, I was there. When it was time for me to graduate from university and choose what I want to do, I went to ask my mother, \u201cbe truthful, what do you see me doing in life?\u201d. She told me that she sees me out there being a star. At that time I was 22, I left Canada and came back to Nigeria.<\/p>\n

When I first started my acting career in around 2013, many directors and producers did not know who I was, they did not recognize my face. The only thing was that I used to talk with oyibo English and that was not what they wanted to hear during auditions. So there were many times when I would go to an audition and I wouldn\u2019t get called back, or I would go to an audition and I wouldn\u2019t even know who to ask for information. So yes, many times they rejected me. Many many times.<\/p>\n

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