Actor Afeez Oyetoro popularly known as Saka, has revealed that lack of financial stability affected his confidence and made it difficult for him to approach women earlier in his career.
In a recent interview with Chude Jideonwo, Saka shared his struggles in the early days of acting career, stating that despite his passion for acting, the career didn’t generate income or recognition at the time, and many people didn’t take actors seriously.
Saka shared that he couldn’t afford basic necessities, including a car, which led some women to doubt his future prospects.
He recalled a particularly hurtful experience where a woman he wanted to marry demanded that he own two cars before she’d consider marriage.
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According to him, the experience made him realise that she wasn’t the right person for him.
He said: “I didn’t have confidence. It took me a long time to start toasting women. There was no money in acting then nobody recognised the actor. We were just doing it out of passion and they did not teach us how to make money from the theatre.
“I had no car so obviously when you call a girl to marry they will say no, there’s no future for this man in fact one of them told me why don’t you quit acting, you’re wasting your life leave this theatre go and do something relevant for your life.
“The one that i was actually supposed to marry you was demanding that i must have two cars before she get married to me then something told me Afeez, this is not your wife so i ran away from there. It was when i got to the school, I got married”.