Rita Dominic reveals she was silently 'banned' from Nollywood for trying to change things

 

Veteran Nollywood actress, Rita Dominic has revealed the real reason she has been absent from Nollywood for years now.

The actress in an interview with Chude Jideonwo said that she has had her high and low moments, and one of these low moments was when she was silently banned from the Nigerian movie industry. 

Rita said that she was determined on making changes for herself and that was what earned her the ban and she never addressed it publicly.

Despite the ban, she has moved on and she is also doing well for herself. For her, the ban was a sort of blessing as she was able to establish her own movie production company which is doing well.

In her words;

“So let me tell you something, I don’t know if I’ve said this publicly. Many years ago, we worked a lot with the marketers and they weren’t used to talking to management, they were used to easy access, direct access to us. So I started working with a manager which is my business partner Mildred because she manages my career as well and it was a challenge.

But I was bent on changing things at least for myself cuz I felt like we needed some sort of structure if we wanted to grow – if we wanted this to go further or advance our careers, we needed to start letting them understand that we have management. So obviously, they didn’t like it but they didn’t… let me put it this way: I think they gave me a silent ban without saying anything. 

I used to trickle down certain things that they would say, a few of them, and I can understand. You know, people don’t like change sometimes especially when it’s been the same thing for so long and it has worked for you. I didn’t get work for a long time! Let’s go ahead with this thing – let’s produce content. 

That’s how I was put on this other trajectory and I started producing. I did my first film, ‘The Meeting’ and I wasn’t going to do the role but we ended up doing it and The Meeting became very successful. So the (ban) in a way was a blessing. Sometimes, the powers that be (the universe) may be moving you in a direction you don’t want because you want things to happen in a certain way. But it might actually let you achieve the same goal through a different route.”