If you are a social media user you must have across John Githui better known to many as Ras through his splendid character as Ras in popular tv show mother in law. Some hours ago he was live in an interview where he talked about his life and why he exited from the popular show. He said that he left the screens after COVID 19 and he left Nairobi to western where he had decided to try another thing in life.
According to him, he had the talent from when he was young and after secondary school he went to Kenya theater. One day his causin connected him with a director and he was absorbed in. After that his talent became known by many and he moved to the screens which was a very big thing by that time. He moved to KBC and kameme where he was doing voiceovers for sometime.
He acted heart and soul grand movie and his last show he played with Ken Wa Kuraya among other and they became very good friends. That was how he entered river road acting industry through ken Wa Kuraya who held his hands. He went for citizen audition and he wasn’t even interviewed because his role was already there. The show went viral and it became very successful in Kenya.
He said there were a lot of challenges on the television and they were not being appreciated according to their contribution. They realized that the salary remained the same the whole time and if you tried to ask for an increase their character was immediately terminated. He added that they were not growing in the television and he decided to try his own way. He got another way he could get more money than acting at citizen and he moved out.
He made it clear that those on tv are very popular but in private they are very broke people. He also talked about Omosh saying he had a good life but Kenyans made too much fake stories about him. He also said that there is no job security at citizen TV since they sign an episode contract which should be worked on.
By Drlife