A Female Producer Disrespected Me Years Ago – Mercy Aigbe

Nollywood actress Mercy Aigbe has shared an experience involving a disrespectful female producer. She recently had her say while addressing an audience at an event, and fans have been reacting.

Explaining that the producer questioned her identity, Mercy stated that she insisted that anyone who wanted jobs from her would need approval before working with other people.

Stressing that the experience happened very early in her acting career, Aigbe appreciated God for her growth since then.

Her words, “The woman was like, Who is Mercy? I don’t have time. Better introduce yourself properly, or else I will cut the phone.

She said the only Mercy she knows is Mercy Johnson and asked why I was calling her. I told her that her production manager had called her about a job, but there was no follow-up.

If you want me to be calling you for my job, you need to be taking permission from me before you can work with other people.

She asked me where I was, and I told her I was on set in Ibadan filming another movie, and she asked which permission I took to be filming another movie.”

WOW.

Nollywood is a sobriquet that originally referred to the Nigerian film industry. The origin of the term dates back to the early 2000s, traced to an article in The New York Times. Due to the history of evolving meanings and contexts, there is no clear or agreed-upon definition for the term, which has made it a subject to several controversies.

The origin of the term “Nollywood” remains unclear; Jonathan Haynes traced the earliest usage of the word to a 2002 article by Matt Steinglass in the New York Times, where it was used to describe Nigerian cinema.

Charles Igwe noted that Norimitsu Onishi also used the name in a September 2002 article he wrote for the New York Times. The term continues to be used in the media to refer to the Nigerian film industry, with its definition later assumed to be a portmanteau of the words “Nigeria” and “Hollywood”, the American major film hub.

Film-making in Nigeria is divided largely along regional, and marginally ethnic and religious lines. Thus, there are distinct film industries – each seeking to portray the concern of the particular section and ethnicity it represents. However, there is the English-language film industry which is a melting pot for filmmaking and filmmakers from most of the regional industries.