Veteran actor Yemi Solade has expressed his disapproval of the notion that actors should give priority to church attendance instead of work on Sundays.
Speaking on the Honest Bunch podcast, Solade recalled a 2013 incident where he was advised to tell producers not to schedule jobs for him on Sundays because of church commitments.
The actor said he rejected the idea, questioning why religious obligations should take precedence over professional responsibilities.
He further criticised certain church expectations, arguing that they can interfere with people’s livelihoods.
Solade said, “If you see me in the church, is that how we are filming. Something happened in my church. I got into the service with my wife that year, 2013.
“I’ve been told in the church that I should tell producers not to call me for work on Sundays. And I cursed the pastor. It is from that thing that you said I shouldn’t do on Sunday that I put my hand in my pocket and I dropped here. The notion that if you don’t attend church once life must die, probably I’ve not seen anything change.
“Rather, I have peace, I do well. Because every day of my life, when I was going to church, I got messages or sort of disturbances. If you are not invited to one committee, then when will I have time to work?
“There’s no way in the Bible that Sunday in the Greco-Roman calendar that I set aside for people to go and assemble and shout God and Jesus. And you’re telling me not to leave my house and go to where my chop is.
“You are here to chop on Sunday. Who are you telling me that I should tell? You want to ruin my career? Let me tell you, I had this Baba who fixed my AC, and I gave him money to buy some things one day, and I was calling him, and he didn’t pick up the call. Later, he told me he was in church.
“I said, Baba, you’re in your 70s, see me at my age. If I say these things to you, you’ll cry. Do you know that you took my money to that church? You gave part of it; that blessing is mine now. It’s my money you went to drop there. If the prayer is efficacious, it will come to me. But it’s my own money, my sweat. And then you left your own business. You went to attend another man’s business”.
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