Veteran Yoruba actor, Adewale Elesho gives reason for his exit from the silver screen

Ever wonder why Adewale Elesho hasn’t graced your screen for a very long time? Wonder no more, here’s why the veteran actor chose to quit acting.

In a chat with Sunday Scoop, he gave badly dressed girls as the reason why he chose to quit acting.

He said…

Even in my house, I cannot watch most of the films that are released nowadays because there is really nothing to learn from them. Many of the actresses don’t dress properly. And because we are not their parents, they don’t listen to us. You cannot expect people whose parents are not responsible to behave well.

You cannot see people whose parents are theatre practitioners, or those who actually trained for the job, behaving badly. Another major issue which is killing the industry is piracy. Many of us borrow money from banks just to shoot movies, and at the end of the day, we are not able to recoup our funds because of piracy.

There was a time I caught the person who pirated a particular movie of mine, and he threatened me that if I took him to the police station, he would come back for me.

He told me that he used to be an armed robber, and that it was when they killed his gang mates that he started piracy.

At that point, I had to let him go. The government really needs to do something urgently about piracy. If there are strong punitive measures for pirates, you would see that it would reduce drastically”.