Nollywood screen goddess, Rita Dominic, has revealed that one of the recipes of becoming a good and successful actor is self-discipline.
Dominic during an Instagram lives while speaking about her career, filmmaking, and what has sustained her career spanning over 23 years.
She said: “You know because we make the work look so easy because you just watch it in the comfort of your living room, there are so many elements to filmmaking, it is such a tedious, tasking and mentally challenging job you know and its discipline to get into character, from character to flesh out a character from start to finish and stay in that space till you are done, it is discipline.”
“At the end of the day yes you acquired the skill but I guess I was born with the talent then studying theatre arts as well sort of helped me you know, what sustained that skill is discipline because you have a call time of 7 am, it takes discipline to know that you have to go to bed very early wake up like 5.30 am get to the set by 7 am and be ready for wardrobe, makeup or whatever to get on set.”
Speaking further, the Nollywood star, disclosed how discipline gave her better roles that positively transformed her career.
“We shot it in Ibadan for 6 months, the first two months we used for rehearsals and the four months afterward we used to film, now in that period because it was such an emotional story, I had to remain in that emotional space, I wasn’t socialising, I wasn’t attending any social event and all that because I needed to be in that space. The good thing was that the producers and directors recognised what had to be done to achieve this film so they put us in a space that helped us at Mokola barracks so I had to sort of coexisting with the army wives, talk to them, share their experiences because that helped me get into character so for me, I think that discipline will help you understand that you have to keep growing your skill you just don’t rest on your laurels,” she said.
