Veteran Nollywood actor, Chiwetalu Agu, has revealed how he turned down a N10 million offer for a movie role.
He said he had insisted on N20 million for the contract even when he has not been able to boast of owning a million naira.
Chiwetalu in an interview with media personality, Chude Jideonwo, said he was approached by movie mogul, Mike Adenuga.
He said he refused to take N10 million and had pretended like he was on his way out and they had called him back with N20 million.
According to the post made on the media personality’s IG post, Chiwetalu said, “Chief Mike Adenuga said, ‘what I have for you in this contract is N10 million.’ I have not seen N1 million before when he was pricing me N10 million but I refused. I said, ‘if it’s not N20 million, forget it.’
“He insisted, I insisted. So, I pretend to rise up and said, ‘give me money to go back to Enugu. If there’s any available flight, book it for me let me just quietly go back.’
“They regarded me to now being serious when I rose up. Chief Mike Adenuga said ‘sit down.’ He ordered them to bring documents for signing. They brought and I signed.
“From that moment uhuru dance started. I did it diplomatically in the office. I didn’t want them to know that N20m was a big deal. But it was the most wonderful thing at the moment.”
