Actress Mercy Aigbe has shared an experience involving a female producer who she said treated her with disrespect and placed conditions before agreeing to work with her.
She spoke about the incident while addressing an audience at an event, explaining that the producer, whose name she did not mention, questioned her identity and insisted she would need approval before working with other people if she wanted to get jobs from her.
“The woman was like, ‘ Who is Mercy? I don’t have time. Better introduce yourself properly, or else I will cut the phone. She said the only Mercy she knows is Mercy Johnson and asked why I was calling her. I told her that her production manager had called her about a job, but there was no follow-up. If you want me to be calling you for my job, you need to be taking permission from me before you can work with other people. She asked me where I was, and I told her I was on set in Ibadan filming another movie, and she asked which permission I took to be filming another movie”,
Mercy said the experience happened during the early stage of her acting career when she was still trying to establish herself in the movie industry.
The actress began her career in Nollywood in the early 2000s and became known through Yoruba language films before gaining wider recognition in mainstream productions. She gained popularity for her roles in several home video movies and later moved into film production and business.
Over the years, Mercy has built a career as an actress, filmmaker and entrepreneur, becoming one of the notable figures in Nigeria’s entertainment industry.
