I pride in the fact that I am an actor, writer and public speaker all rolled into one. These three careers are such that I can pursue and excel in them simultaneously without much effort. The amusing thing is that I have been doing lots of writing on this space about my career as a public speaker and of course, the writer in me speaks (writes) always. The point I am trying to make is that I have neglected to write about my career as an actor perhaps as an error of omission. Just in case you do not know, I have some years of acting experience (mostly stage) behind me having acted professionally from 2002 to 2004 with my last role as 'Aafaa' in Soyinka's Madmen and Specialists. This was when Prof. Wole Soyinka clocked 70 and just in case you are wondering, he was there in person at the event. I could say that was the biggest project I was involved in then apart from being on TV. Since 2004, I have been involved in other things besides acting.
Anyway, I will be sharing my experience in my bid to star in Tinsel, MNETs Nigerian soap opera. They held auditions in March this year for Season 3 and had another in the first week of August after the season had started possibly in a bid to get extras. That's acting lingo but I guess it's plain simple enough!
After the auditions in March, I was called after about two weeks for another audition and this time I had to vie for the role with three other people. The long and short of the whole story is that I got a role in Season 3 of Tinsel. I was supposed to play 'Henry' the bald, well-dressed twenty-something year old man who is in the business of selling clothes. My happiness was without limits understandably. Little did I know I was in for some dose of tough luck!
That was when the long wait started for me as I expected them to call to inform me of when I would be on set. Weeks turned into months and eventually sometime in August I got to know they had deleted the character saying it was no more relevant to the story.
Of course, I was not too happy with the development and thankfully, I had only told a handful of people I would be appearing in Tinsel Season 3 so it was easy for me to 'untell' them. I had really looked forward to being in Tinsel but I guess it was not to be, at least not then. Perhaps I will try again next season but until then I think I will stick with stage and forget about starting a career in Nollywood. Hmm! That is a story for another day.
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