Sanyeri suffers leg fracture in a stunt, while on a movie set.
Popular Yoruba comic actor, Sanyeri, is
currently in pains after fracturing his leg while jumping off a building
while on set. In an exclusive interview, the actor said that the
incident occurred while he was filming his recent project, Asiwaju,
where he featured Mr. Ibu.
“I got injured on the set of the movie I
just concluded works on. I did a stunt and broke my leg. I am not in a
hospital, I am at home but as we speak I have a POP cast on my leg. The
character I was playing had to climb the roof of a house because he had
some spiritual problems. When the landlord of the house realised that
someone was on his roof, he called the police and while avoiding arrest,
the character had to jump off the roof of the house. That was how I
broke my leg and the doctors said that the cast would be on my leg for a
month,” he said.
Sanyeri used that opportunity to tell Saturday Beats
that he has really ‘suffered’ in the course of his life as he also
recalled how he was a shoe cobbler before he became an actor.
He said, “The suffering I endured was
really extreme. After I finished my secondary school education, I did
not have a job so I delved into the theatre world. I did it for some
time but I was not being paid even when I went everywhere with the group
and was helping them carry their costume. I had to learn how to repair
shoes so I became a shoe cobbler. Eventually, I left Oyo town and came
to Lagos to find greener pastures but still I was not earning anything
from acting.
“I became a mobile cobbler. I would put
my materials in a wooden box, place it on my shoulder and start hitting
it as I walked the length and breadth of Idumota. I would constantly hit
my wooden box as I walked about to call the attention of people. Then
nobody knew me so I kept hitting my box all over Idumota.
“I remember I had a handkerchief I used
to cover my face because of my tribal marks. The reason I concealed my
tribal marks was because the Igbo boys at Idumota had the belief that if
they did not give their shoes to a Ghanaian cobbler, no one could do a
better job. If they saw my tribal marks, they would think I was one of
the touts that would normally come to disturb them for money for shop
and they would not give me their shoes to repair. When I saw that
being a shoe cobbler was affecting my career as an actor, I had to quit
and face acting squarely. I thank God that good fortunes have come my
way.”
Source: Punchng
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