Popular Nollywood actress cum movie
producer Lilian Bach revealed to Saturday
Beats that she quit acting and movie
production because of piracy.
Miss Bach said she practically fled
Nollywood when the piracy scourged bit
harder.
She blamed her exit from Nollywood on the
bitter experience she had as a producer.
“I purposely took a break from doing
movies. I became a producer and I
wanted to be doing my own movies
but piracy couldn’t allow me. In
Nollywood, experience is actually the
best teacher; nobody really tells you
the truth. You have to go through the
experience to find out what others are
suffering from. We cannot continue to
ignore the fact that piracy has been
trying to bring the industry down.
That was why I took a break. I
couldn’t continue producing movies
without recouping my money. It is not
a good thing,” she said .
She said the scourge also affected a lot of
big actresses who are no longer featured in
movies.
“You don’t even see the super stars
in movies anymore because
producers now try to cut cost
because they are not guaranteed that
they would get their money back. By
the time you pay the stars and settle
other bills in making the movie, you
wouldn’t know what would come
back to you as your returns. When
you release the movie on DVD or
even before you do that, it is already
pirated.
“We need a lasting solution to this
problem, otherwise there will no
longer be Nollywood because we are
really going down. We are hoping the
new government will have the time
and come out with a stricter
punishment to those who do the
act,” she said .
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