There is a top Nollywood actress who most actors look forward to working with. Through many years of hard work, she climbed up the ladder, and she’s in fact, the top actress that keeps raking in billions for cinemas for the past two years now.
This award of the most talented actress that knows the tricks of marketing her films has dragged other people in the industry to do the same instead of the usual produce film and relax for people to discover it method.
Over the years, there were so many talks about how hard she was to work with, how she short pays her staff and fellow actresses, but there was a particular one that stood out. It was a fallout with another actress that was upcoming. It was so messy that people tried to cancel this top actress, but they couldn’t. Blogs carried the stories and released many versions of the same story.
Oh well, the news almost died a natural death until one day…
A struggling actor went on a podcast where he was asked if he had ever worked with the top actress I talked about earlier, and he responded, “yes”. well, he was further asked to describe how working with her was, and that was where his trouble started.
He spoke, and spoke and spoke so much that he was fulfilled about answering the question perfectly, but guess what? When the organizers published the podcast, they released a version where the struggling actor said, “the top actress only pays her workers and fellow actors peanut that is not even up to a 100k” after all the shoot.
A lot of news blog saw this, picked it up, and ran with it because that was what they were looking for, isn’t it?
Barely 7 hours after the podcast went live, this struggling actor came on Instagram to scream, cry, and shout that it wasn’t his intention to smear the reputation of this top actress. He further said that that was not exactly what he said. In his words, “the amount he said he was paid was 80,000 naira per night on the shoot not at the end of the shoot, and that 80k was long ago before she even became a billionaire actress. Oh, this actor cried so much, but unfortunately, the blogs that carried the omitted version of his interview on the podcast didn’t use the same energy to promote his side of the story.
His career is currently still dangling because a lot of other actors would definitely avoid working with him just because they don’t trust what could come out of his mouth, forgetting that the podcast organizers decided to omit the part that would save him, instead, they cut and joined the part that would attract them followers.
You see, the lie of omission is still a lie. Sometimes, in fact, most times, people do this because they want to move to the most interesting part of the story, so they tend to omit the part where they think is not necessary just because they want to.
See, no matter how sweet or sour the story will become, it is better to say it as it is. No one will beat anyone or fault anyone for saying the truth, yeah? So, white lies, lie of omission, and whatever type, don’t do it, if it would hurt people.
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