By Oduwaiye Fela
Yeah you read right, Nollwood marketers have banned actress Mercy
Johnson Okojie for being too expensive. Doesn't make sense does it? If
someone's fees is too high, the sensible thing to do would be to boycott
them and use less expensive actresses. Leave her to those who can
afford her na, abi?
Mercy Johnson is currently the highest paid actress in Nollywood. She
charges between N1.8million to N2m to feature in a movie. The others,
like Ini and Funke charge between N700k to N1.2million.
For this reason, the actress has been blacklisted by the Nollywood Movie
Marketers Association. The ban will not take effect immediately as
Mercy has already signed up to do quite a number of movies. She returned
on Thursday from a movie location, and will be on the set of another
movie from tomorrow, Sunday. She will be traveling out of Nigeria
sometime this month and when she returns, will be on another movie
set...so she's basically booked till the end of the year.
The idea now is not to ban her after all her current contracts end. So
the ban won't take effect until at least January 2014. This is not the
first time the movie marketers association will be placing bans on
actors ... they did this a few years ago when quite a number of actors
including RMD, Genevieve Nnaji, Ramsey Noah, Emeka Ike, and Jim Iyke
were blacklisted.
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