How I was paid N4,000 after playing lead role in movies few years back – Actor, Lateef Adedimeji

Popular Nollywood actor, Lateef Adedimeji has relayed past experience of when he was underpaid despite playing lead roles in movies.

Actor to the actor,he was being paid s low as N4,000 for a lead role in 2014.

According to him, the pay started to increase in 2015 when he began to get N100,000 to N200,000 for a role in movies.

The Jagun Jagun actor made this known on the latest episode of the ‘Deep Dive’ podcast hosted by comedian, Teju Babyface.

Adedimeji said, “If I tell people that I wasn’t collecting N100,000, N200,000 until 2015/16, a lot of people would not believe me.

“Before then, the highest I collected for a lead role was either N4,000, N5,000, or N10,000. I was paid that low back in 2014 because it was more like a learning process.”