I Kept My Virginity When Movie Marketers Demanded S*x For Roles – Moji Afolayan

Veteran Nollywood actress Moji Afolayan has come out to say that she was blacklisted by movie marketers because she refused their s*xual advances. She recently refused that the planned blacklisting ended up leading to a drastic decline in her acting career.

According to the actress, because of her upbringing and personal principles, she never gave in to such demands, and her acting profession ended up paying for it.

She added that her decision not to give up her body never changed because even her husband, whom she married as a virgin, had not slept with her.

Her words, “This is because, at that time, when we had marketers at Idumota, they used to give producers money to work.

However, due to the kind of training I received at home, I cannot trade my body for movies. My husband, who married me, has not even done anything. You will notice that I am trying to speak in proverbs.

Because I did not do it, they held a meeting among themselves not to call me. I did not sleep with them. I did not offer my body for sex.

They are all watching this programme. People who are doing it are doing it. Many of them will have their husbands outside while the wives will be with them inside. I am exposing their secrets now.

They would tell me, ‘is it only my husband?’ I was like is it because you want to help. Then you would have to hold on to your help.

I thank God I stood with my dignity. That is what I am enjoying today. I held on to my virginity. I stand out among them now. I have only received mercy. They made them stars. Their posters were all around.

But when they tried to stand alone, there was a great fight, which was bound to happen in that kind of relationship. I did not inform my husband at the time.

It was because I did not offer myself for sex that they denied me movie roles.”

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.