In 2019, sex for roles began to trend after numerous female actresses in the entertainment industry came out to disclose how they were molested for various reasons by senior colleagues.
Disclosing how she lost several movie roles for failing to indulge in the sex for roles practice, Omoni Oboli who is a leading cinematographer and thespian mentioned that movie directors and producers failed to feature her in movies due to her decision not to indulge in the act.
The actress stated this during her latest interview with comedian AY on ‘Glasshouse show’.
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Omoni explained that the incident happened when she returned to Nigeria after taking a break to raise her kids abroad.
“One director asked me to kiss him at an audition, and I couldn’t understand why he would do that. So I was like ‘is this an audition?’ and he was like ‘yeah, I just want to see’ and I said ‘sorry, I can’t do it because I didn’t see any reason I would be kissing you the director when we are not on set.
“And so I said ‘oh no sorry, I can’t.’ Guess what? I didn’t get the role that I travelled for, and I ended up travelling back without playing the role.”