Actors Now Scared Of Going To Location To Shoot Motion pictures – AGN President – The Whistler Newspaper

The current abduction of two Nollywood thespians has created worry amongst actors within the nation and prevented a few of them from going to sure places to movie.

In an interview with THE WHISTLER, the President of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Emeka Rollas, revealed how the kidnapping of Cynthia Okereke and Clemson Cornel is affecting the film business.

Okereke and Cornel have been kidnapped on July 29 at Ozalla in Nkanu West Native Authorities Space of Enugu State and remained in captivity for about 5 days.

Their abductors had demanded $100,000 in ransom however the guild was solely capable of elevate N1.2 million to safe their launch.

It was not the primary time that Nigerian actors can be kidnapped for ransom.

In 2009, veteran actor Pete Edochie was kidnapped and launched after paying a ransom. Nkem Owoh was additionally kidnapped in 2009 and launched after paying a ₦1.4 million ransom.

Rollas informed this web site that these abductions have been starting to have an effect on the enterprise of filmmaking as actors now not really feel protected going to places to shoot films.

“It’s affecting the business as a lot as it’s affecting the entire nation. The problem of insecurity is not only concerning the leisure business, it’s concerning the nation usually.

“The impact it has on the leisure business is that the output of movies which can cut back as a result of actors can be frightened of capturing films and finishing their initiatives at set time. Individuals filming exterior a metropolis shall be scared to movie due to insecurity.

“Typically, the impact it has on the business shouldn’t be good, and the actors are scared now to movie in sure locations as a result of it seems like they’re changing into targets.”

On what the insecurity is costing the business, he mentioned, “As I discussed earlier, individuals are after all scared to go full initiatives. Actually, when this factor occurred in Enugu, there have been some initiatives ongoing (and) a few of them needed to be postponed.

“In fact, you realize while you postpone a challenge, it’s going to mechanically have an effect on the price range of that manufacturing, so producers are going to lose cash, mere undeniable fact that individuals are being kidnapped.”

Rollas mentioned the guild had issued an advisory to actors towards filming in places which can be distant.

“We now have already issued an advisory that actors should keep away from going exterior the metropolis to movie and even when you’re going to movie within the metropolis, it is usually crucial that you just insist that your producer will at the least present you sufficient safety inside the space of operation as a result of if there’s a safety presence the place actors are filming it’s going to make them not really feel too relaxed to go after them,” he mentioned.