Pete Edochie, the Nollywood legend, has gone down memory lane, recounting how dismissal from broadcasting led him to acting.
He said his wife encouraged him to pursue his passion in acting after he lost his broadcasting job.
In an interview with media personality Chude Jideonwo, Edochie said he lost his broadcasting job due to religious differences and internal issues which he did not elaborate on.
However, he said his wife was the reason he got into acting because she excitedly encouraged him to take up the job when he got back home and informed her that he has lost his job.
He also revealed that while he earned N9,000 monthly as a director in his broadcasting job, he was offered N50,000 in his first acting gig.
He said:
“I told my wife my work was over. She hugged me, bought me a bottle of beer, and said, ‘Pete, you’ve always wanted to be an actor; the time has come.’
“I was sitting there with her in the parlor when somebody from Lagos came to give me a check for fifty thousand to make a film.
“At that time, my salary as the director was 9000 naira per month.”
