Actress, Chesan Nze, recently took to Instagram to call out Nollywood producers who demand sex for movie roles.
Explaining why she took the decision to go on social media, Chesan revealed that she had her fair share of sexual harassment in the industry.
On Instagram a few days ago, she wrote:
“I am done keeping mute over the movie producers who demand for sex. I do this business for the love of entertaining my people. But, these producers want me to sacrifice my dignity for my passion, after sacrificing my time for my dream. How long will this continue in Nollywood? You want to have sex as a condition before featuring an actor whom you contacted and auditioned for a role? It is alarming. Actors no longer attract respect because of these producers. Everyone sees actors as prostitutes.”
According to Saturday Beats, the actress revealed that she made the revelation on IG after a movie producer demanded sex from her after sending her about three different movie scripts.
She said: “The experience that actually led to my post was the call I got that morning from a producer who sent me about three scripts to go through and said I should spend seven days in his hotel room to give him hot sex styles, before he pays me to shoot (movies) with him.”
“I asked him if that was the condition attached, and he said if I wasn’t ready to do as he wanted, there were over 50 girls willing to take my role and give him hot styles for two weeks nonstop. Tears rolled down my eyes, and I had no option than to post the experience on social media. I didn’t want to cry alone, or lead myself into depression. I had to let it out because nothing irritates me than work-related abuse.”
Nze also disclosed that she had faced series of threats since she made the post on Instagram.
She said: “I was threatened to talk less about my experience because my career would be at stake. On the other hand, some producers contacted me and encouraged me. I look forward to producing my own movies soon.”