Veteran actor, Leo ‘Spider’ Osuji, speaks to GODFREY GEORGE about his experiences in radio, and acting and how he survived the Civil War despite becoming a child soldier at 12.
You have been acting for well over four decades. How has the experience been for you over the years?
I have been in the entertainment space since 1970. I started as a radio presenter. I have to pay tribute to those who brought me in but are no more. Some like Gilbert Ugbodiegwu, Dan Nkolagu of Radio Nigeria, Susan Obi and Lizzy Nwobodo are all deceased. I will say it has been a very good experience.
I was a civil servant even as I was into entertainment. I worked at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital and retired at Level 13. You can imagine combining entertainment and civil service. It was a very huge experience because I started and retired there (at UNTH) in 2011.
There was a time I became fully involved in acting. Over the years, I have been working intermittently. It has been exciting. It afforded me the opportunity of meeting with my mentor, Pete Edochie. He was an idol I had even before joining the industry. We knew each other back in the 80s before I joined acting fully.
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