Nigerian-British actress, Genoveva Umeh has disclosed that even though acting has always been her passion, she didn’t study it in the first place. She claimed to have studied law in college, but after failing law her first year, she realized her true interest was acting.
On the most recent episode of the podcast Is This Seat Taken, which is hosted by Nollywood actress Chinasa Anukam, the actor made this revelation.
She said,
“Studying law, I would say was my decision. But I would also say that I realized that I was first generation immigrant, I know how hard my parents worked to get me into the UK.
“So, I didn’t want to do a course that I just kinda took as a hobby. I thought acting was a hobby.
“I literally just went from just thinking of it [acting] as a hobby in university and just thinking, yeah, when I graduate, I’m going to come back and pursue this.
“But that didn’t happen until I failed my first year. I failed my first year of law. That was when I realized that I need to start considering what I want to do as opposed to what I feel I have to do.”
