‘I started acting in 1958’ – Lere Paimo counters Pete Edochie’s seniority claim

Veteran Yoruba actor, Lere Paimo, says helium started acting successful 1958 – 4 years earlier his colleague, Pete Edochie.

Paimo made the assertion during an interrogation with histrion Kunle Afod, posted connected YouTube. Paimo was countering Edochie’s assertion that helium started his acting vocation successful 1962, astatine 15.

Paimo insisted that that helium was already acting erstwhile Edochie began his career.

This came aft Edochie challenged actors who claimed to person started their careers earlier him to travel guardant and beryllium their claims.

“I started acting successful 1958. I met Hubert Ogunde, who was elder to maine and others, and determination were large movies produced backmost then,” Paimo said.

Recall that Edochie had precocious cited his show successful William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice successful 1962 arsenic grounds of however acold backmost his acting vocation dates.

Paimo, however, besides pointed to the earlier Yoruba travelling-theatre tradition, peculiarly the precocious theatre fable Hubert Ogunde, arsenic grounds that indigenous Nigerian theatre predated English-language movie productions.

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