Yoruba actress Fisayo Abebi has opened up about how she unexpectedly began her journey in filmmaking and how she has managed the challenges of being an actor at a young age.
During an interview posted on the official YouTube channel of Biola Adebayo Ent, Fisayo revealed that acting was never part of her plans. She shared how an actor asked her to pretend to be a sick person during a visit to her mother on a movie set, marking the start of her acting career.
Recalling the experience, she said, “I was holding my mother’s phone when it started ringing continuously while she was on set with her colleagues.”
I was never an actress, it was an actor who begged me to pretend to be a sick person. He was very happy with the way I handled the movie scene on the movie set, and he told my mother that he would like me to join his film making crew, and that was how my career started.”
It was when I was in the church drama group. I was very young then I played the role of Mary, Mother of Jesus when she was pregnant. I was only doing it for fun, but people were already saying they loved the way I acted. When I was eight years, Mr Tunde Ola-Yusuf and his crew came to shoot a movie in our area, my mum’s phone was ringing and I went to give it to her, so they told me, “hey baby girl sit down there”. I didn’t say anything but my reaction captured them and they told me to come and they started calling me for roles. My boss told me that he wants to train me; he said the reaction he saw that day alone showed that I have the potentials to be a great actress and would be useful in the movie industry. So, in 2019 I went for training in his acting school – Ibadan Acting Studio. I got my certificate and since then people started calling me for roles.