Nollywood actress Nkechi Blessing Sunday has spoken openly about some of the difficulties she faced at the start of her acting journey.
In a recent appearance on The Honest Bunch podcast, she revealed that one of her earliest challenges was being offered scripts with extreme and unrealistic scenes. She recounted being handed a script that required her to “sleep with a dog,” a role she immediately declined because of the long-term effect it could have on her reputation.
According to her:
“Despite being a newcomer, I was given a script to sleep with a dog. I rejected it because I can’t start off my career like that. Imagine my first ever movie, I am sleeping with a dog. It doesn’t make sense. It is going to be a tag because whatever you start with is what people would associate you with. I didn’t want to be renowned as someone who sleeps with dogs in movies.
“So, I rejected that script. But immediately I threw it down, so many girls grabbed it. I’m not sure any of them are in the limelight today.”