Teju Babyface Speaks On How His Acting Career Ended Prematurely

, Olateju Oyelakin, aka Teju Babyface, has spoken on his acting career experience and how it ended prematurely.
In a chat with The Punch, the talk show host gave highlights of his acting career.

He said: I was walking one day (in school) from my hall to the arts’ theatre to prepare for a play my club was hosting. Then, my colleague came to me saying that I had been shortlisted for a movie audition which I knew nothing of. Jude Orhorha had recommended me and someone else to the director, Tade Ogidan, and as soon as he (Ogidan) saw me, I got the role. Interestingly, I couldn’t act at all but the director helped me through. When I got cast for the role in the movie, Diamond Ring, I was an 18-year-old, year two student in UNILAG. I immediately envisaged a future that was glamorous with fame and fortune.
Acting with RMD was a surreal feeling because he was someone I admired earnestly. I won’t disclose my pay for that project but it is equivalent to a student who gets N25,000 pocket money and suddenly getting N500,000 from one movie. I was paid half upfront and I went on a ‘ballistic’ shopping spree to buy clothes.
When my parents found out that I was going into the entertainment industry, they were not happy at all. It didn’t help that I was failing in school and for a long time, they didn’t see me living up to my potential and the life they had dreamt of. Over time, I grew in my career and they were recognised as my parents and that turned things around with them. You know you are doing well when your father, who is successful, introduces himself and people start asking if he’s related to you. That happened to me and it calmed him down.

On how his acting career ended and his journey to being a comedian, he said:

Diamond Ring came and went and I became a broke celebrity because I had finished my money and there were no other movies. I had to find something else to do. When I got to year four, comedy was just taking off in Nigeria at the time, and as a UNILAG student, I had the perfect platform to launch my comedy. I was young and popular and thought to turn my skills into comedy.

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