Nigerian actress, Teniola Aladese has opened up that she would have been a lawyer if she had not delved into acting.
She made the revelation during an interview on the WithChude podcast.
According to her, her initial dream in life was to be a lawyer.
However, after reading a book by Christopher Darden, one of the prosecutors in the infamous OJ Simpson case, she had a change of heart.
She said:
“To be honest, I am not sure that I knew I wanted to act up until SS2. I wanted to be a lawyer at first and then I read this book by Christopher Darden, he was one of the prosecutors on the OJ Simpson’s case.”
“He just chronicled the entire case, I finished this book and I said I am not cut out to be a lawyer. First of all I do not know what I would do if I lost a case for a client and I saw the point of view of these two lawyers and how they felt about loosing the case.
“So I was like what else can I do? My plan B was that I kind of like acting, I used to watch films especially Genevieve and Regina Askia. But it was now in SS2 that I was like, I am not sure if I want to go to school to study acting just in case it does not work out for me. What else can I study?
“And I was like my plan B is to be a news anchor and that was why I studied Mass Communication. I asked my parents and they were like if I wanted to study Theater Arts, I should. But I was like just in case, let me just study Mass Com and I would try acting.”