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Femi Oguns

Femi Oguns

Talent agent and former actor

Mar 13, 2026

TundeHOST
34:28
And what led you to open up the talent agency? Is it just that you could see the talent in front of you doing the showcases and you thought, right, I can't let this talent go to waste? Or was there another reason?
34:41
Well, where originally what used to happen at the school, so we used to run showcases where we would invite agents to come down and watch them.
34:48
But what was happening is, is that these agents that were coming down were mismanaging them.
34:52
And there's nothing worse than investing so much time, energy and installing the belief in your actors only to basically offload them to people that... didn't really understand them and place the same restrictions that they have on their everyday life.
35:09
What we fail to realize is, is that this industry that we're stepping into is a magnified version of reality.
35:16
And with that comes people's perceptions and stereotypes.
35:21
So my argument was, how would you expect somebody who doesn't really want to see you as a human being other than label you, be able to give you access to the kind of roles that kind of transcend race, gender, and so on and so forth.

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TundeHOST
50:47
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