Gloria Young Talks About Her Journey from Journalism to Acting

Nollywood veteran actress, Gloria Young recently opened up in an interview on how she journeyed from journalism to acting. She disclosed that she hated trekking to cover a beat, and was ill treated by people sometimes. However, she embraced acting after many years of avoiding it, as her father wanted her to act. That was when the change came in her life, and today Gloria Young is not only acting but also grooming a lot of Nigerians on how to act.

See part of the interview below:

“I didn’t like trekking  to cover a beat, but that’s what happened most times and people ill treated me sometimes. It is only now that journalists are celebrated because in my days we were not that lucky , but I paid my dues. The belief  that female journalists are wayward is fallacious. I was never wayward as a journalist or as an actress.

So how did the change come?

There is nothing as constant as change itself. We must embrace  new beginnings and ide-as daily, we need  to explore and learn to gain experience. I’ve not  been  doing the same thing I’ve been doing in the past ten years. That’s boring. I always  look for  ways  to make  a difference. For instance, if you cook egusi soup with ugu leaves today, tomorrow you might cook it with bitter leaves and subsequently you try different leaves  to  make it tastier.  You know it -vor. I’m a versatile  actress and I’m capable of playing different roles. I also explore  the other side of me like my my voice on radio. I do a lot on radio including  production. I don’t just do only movies,  I also act  on stage.

Has she ever wanted to be an actress?

I  never dreamt of being an actress. When  I was   11 years, I attended  acting classes , but I didn’t take them  seriously and my teacher  reported me  to my dad that I was not concentrating on my lines. Subsequently, my dad  locked me up in his bed room  and made me  learn all my lines . My  teacher  he knew  I could  do it and my dad told me that anything that’s worth doing is worth doing well. I  acted the role of a princess and  everybody commended me. Initially, I didn’t like acting ,  because I felt rehearsals were burden-some and  stressful,  but I didn’t know  God was preparing me for my future.