The veteran actor, Rasaq Olayiwola, popularly known as Ojopagogo, has been gracing our television screen for over three decades. The actor, who often features as an old man or an herbalist in movies, spoke to Saturday Beats about being stereotyped in the movie industry

The veteran on-screen character, Rasaq Olayiwola, prevalently known as Ojopagogo, has been gracing our TV screen for more than three decades. The performer, who regularly includes as an old man or a botanist in motion pictures, addressed Saturday Beats about being stereotyped in the film business. 

He expressed that he was tired of makers continually giving him a role as a cultivator in films, expressing that as a performing artist, he is intended to investigate all characters accessible to him. "When I began acting, I didn't begin with the part of a cultivator.


Alade Aromire was the main individual that give me a role as a botanist in a film and from that point forward, individuals have begun utilizing me for the part of a cultivator. I have whined about it; truth be told, a year ago, I needed to hold a gathering with a few partners in our industry to tell them that they should utilize me for other motion picture parts rather than just utilizing me for the part of a botanist.

"They disclosed to me that it is because of the request of general society however I would like to assume different parts. These days, on the off chance that you demand that I should act the part of a botanist in your motion picture, I do it yet not with a similar energy I would use to depict different characters," he said.

At the point when asked what his fantasy part would be, the actor expressed that he would love to assume the part of somebody who threatens individuals in films.

"One of my fantasy parts is to assume the part of somebody who threatens others in a wrongdoing motion picture. I need to be highlighted in a wrongdoing motion picture and I need individuals to realize that I am a flexible performing artist.

"Regardless of whether individuals would not have any desire to cast me for that part, I can compose a content that would delineate my craving and I would shoot the motion picture. The adventure into my acting profession has been testing; I have still not accomplished what I need. I need to leave my impressions on the sands of time after I am dead and gone; cash isn't all that matters," he said