Meet Nigeria’s richest actor, Ladi Emeruwa … who has no time for Nollywood

If you’ve been wondering who Nigeria’s richest actor is, you might not need to wonder anymore as, during the week, Oseyiza Oogbodo Blog spoke with an actor who confirmed with his own mouth that he’s the one whom the prestigious title belongs to.

By name Ladi Emeruwa, and not really popular yet  in Nigeria because he’s based in England, he popped into Nigeria this week to do what he does best, acting, and his role this time was as Hamlet in the stage adaptation of Hamlet, one of the classic plays of the renowned playwright, William Shakespeare.

And speaking with OOB during the week at the MUSON Centre where Hamlet was to be staged, he indicated that he was Nigeria’s richest actor based on the amount he’s being paid to play the role of Hamlet, saying he’s being paid millions of pounds sterling which is the world’s most valuable currency.

If you are one of those who don’t know Emeruwa yet, it might just be pragmatic that you should note his name and face as he seems destined to become greater still. He was born in Nigeria, attended St. Saviour’s School, Ikoyi, Lagos and studied law at the University of Bristol, England before he pursued acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts.

Recently, he starred as Brutus in LAMDA’s Julius Caesar at Wilton’ Music Hall and on tour in Paris.

Presently, he’s touring the world playing the role of Hamlet in the Shakespeare Globe Theatre’s Hamlet Globe To Globe Tour which is scheduled for every country in the world over two years. The tour began last year April and will end next year on April 23^rd, 2016, the 400^th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death.

Already, the tour has been to seventy-eight countries across the Americas, Europe and Africa and its staging in Nigeria during the week made Nigeria the seventy-ninth country it stopped at.

And Emeruwa is on such a high that it’s obvious that he doesn’t even have Nollywood in mind for now. When OOB asked him if he was planning to get actively involved in Nollywood, he couldn’t answer definitively, and he can’t be blamed, can he, because if you can conquer Hollywood, why bother with Nollywood?