I Quit Acting To Be A Movie Producer – Ego Boyo

Nollywood actress Ego Boyo has revealed why she stepped away from acting after her rise to fame. Ego recently said that she quit acting to concentrate on her career as a movie producer.

Speaking in a snippet from her upcoming interview with Chude Jideonwo, the former Checkmate star disclosed that it was impossible for her to juggle acting and production together.

According to her, she had to leave one for the other, and the decision was easy because she prefers to make movies than feature in them.

“I stopped acting because I wanted to produce.

I found that I enjoyed producing more than I enjoyed acting,” she said.

Ego Boyo, who played Anne Haastrup in the popular 90s soap “Checkmate” and starred in late Amaka Igwe’s “Violated” also refuted long-standing rumours that her husband stopped her from acting.

She clarified that several Nigerian blogs made it seem like her husband didn’t want her to be an actress, but that was not the case.

Ego concluded by saying that those rumors were lies, and quitting the movie industry was solely her decision.

“The blogs then wanted it to be something like my husband banned me from acting… they wanted it to be sensational and it was not. So it was boring,” she added.