Indecency has taken over our Movie industry – Veteran Actor, Lere Paimo

Iconic actor, Lere Paimo, and one of the founding fathers of the Yoruba movie sector of Nollywood has express his concern towards the raise of “indecency” in the movie industry in Nigeria.

The thespian who has been in the movie industry for over 5dacades during a chat with Alabi Taiwo Afadapakuro on Fresh Fm105.9 Ibadan, monitored by Pearlsnews.com, addressed the difference in the movie industry of todays compared to what they had back then.

“During our days, we exhibited pure God’s gifts through our writing skills on stories, history that teaches, educate and gives wisdom, but this days its really different, all we see these days is wearing clothes that exposes the body and the use of abusive words is almost becoming the an everyday things”.

He went further to say; Our actors and actresses should be character conscious, they should please guide their characters so as to not lose eternity. Their attitude should speaks nothing but positivity.

On why he has been away from the movie scene, he said:

No, this has nothing to do with old age, am still very much active, its just that the politics from the so called young ones in the industry is sicking, but thank God it has been corrected and everything is under control

Pa Lere Paimo will be celebrating his 80yrs birthday on the 11th of October and lot of stars are expected to be in attendance.