Why I Abandoned Law For Nollywood – Femi Adebayo

Nollywood actor and filmmaker, Femi Adebayo, has explained why he abandoned legal practice for acting in 2005. He recently had his say during an interview on the Afrobeats podcast, and fans have been reacting.

Revealing that he practised litigation for about two years before deciding to pursue acting and film production full-time, Adebayo stated that he had to switch because the entertainment industry offered better financial rewards and greater personal fulfilment.

Describing acting as a hobby that eventually became his profession, Femi added that he simply discovered that he was more passionate about it than the legal career he had studied for.

His words, “It was actually hobby turned profession for me.

Acting was a hobby because you want to do what daddy does when you are young.

But I realised that it was paying more and I felt more passionate about it. I feel happy when I do that more than the law that I went to school to study.

I was called to the Nigerian Bar in 2003. I did litigation practice, stood before the court of law and did that for about two years.

Something kept dragging me to the acting world, so I gave up in 2005, dropped the wig and gown and went fully into acting and producing.

When I said I wanted to study law, my father was happy because that was his dream.

Eventually, when I pulled out from law, it was in between being happy that somebody was taking after him in the acting world and at the same time dropping the wig and gown that he had wanted to hold.”