I once priced my casket – Actor Dele Odule reveals + Video

Veteran Nollywood actor, Dele Odule, has revealed that he once priced his own casket during a period of extreme personal and career despair while living in Abeokuta, Ogun State.

He explained that he reached a breaking point where he felt his life was in “shambles” and believed he would never achieve a breakthrough in the movie industry.

Odule made the revelation in an interview with Feelright TV.

He recounted that his colleague and fellow actor, Olaiya Igwe, accompanied him to price the coffin and was so moved by Odule’s hopelessness that he started crying like a baby

“I had priced my own casket before, when everything and my life were in shambles in Abeokuta.

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“I didn’t get myself anymore; I didn’t believe I could break through. Olaiya Igwe knows about it; I went there with him, and he started crying like a baby,” he said.

Odule explained that at the time, he felt completely stuck and discouraged, especially seeing people he once schooled with progressing in life while he struggled to find his footing.

He added, “I wasn’t sick; I just believed I could no longer have breakthroughs in the industry. I was fed up.

“Because all my schoolmates are doing far better than me and my life was nothing to write home about.”

Dele Odule is a renowned and respected figure in Yoruba Nollywood, with a career-spanning decades across stage and film productions.

He has enjoyed a distinguished career in Nigerian cinema since the late 1980s.

He has also served as President of the Theatre Arts and Movie Practitioners Association of Nigeria (TAMPAN).

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