A few of you might be wondering why Emeka Ike isn't seen in movies anymore? reason is producers hates him. Below is what he said in a disclosed interview...
“If you knock at their office and you can’t sleep with them, you won't be allowed to act. Is it fair to tell a girl that ‘if I don’t sleep with
you, you won’t get my favour?’ if God does that to us, where would we
be today? This situation is a general norm. Ask the smallest artiste
about my position on the situation. I have stopped productions severally
because of this (s3xual harassment). That’s why sometimes they get
issues with me.
Continue after the break.
He went on to narrate an ugly incident he witnessed on a movie set, he said,
“There was a day I saw a girl crying at a corner of a movie set, her
name is Esther. She is a make-up artiste now because she has stopped
acting for them (emphasis).
“I approached her and asked why she was crying. She was lamenting like a
girl who has just lost her mother. She told me that ‘look at the girl
going with my script, that ugly animal. The producer said if I can’t sleep with him, I can’t get the script.
“She mentioned the name of the person. So because she can’t sleep with
that man, she has to be marginalized, Kai! I have something against
that. If a girl wants to sleep with
you because you are a star or because she likes you, so be it. Don’t
arm-twist someone, that is rape. Abroad, they will go to jail for even
suggesting it to her.
"You need to be responsible and responsive to the young people
you have exposed acting to. You need to stand up and fight for them.
Right now, they are interested in acting and there is no place to go to.
They go to Ajao and they tell them open your legs, is that what we made
the industry for?
“I gave the lady her artiste fee that day. Go to Enugu and ask of
Esther, the make-up artiste. She will tell you about this story. That is
why they don’t like me.”
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