The Painful Truth…Why Young Producers – Though Massively Celebrated Her 77th Birthday – Don’t Feature Mama Rainbow In Their Movies

Eniola Adeniyi

Esther Idowu Phillips, the elderly actor popularly known as Iya Rainbow just celebrated her 77th birthday.

And a lot of movie industry practitioners identified with her.

Checks by societynow.ng, however, revealed the massive celebration she enjoyed on her birthday is in stark contrast to Iya Rainbow’s current acceptance in the movie world.

‘’she is rarely featured by young producers’’ societynow.ng learned.

And this development is attributed to ‘’unacceptable demands’’ made of the aging role interpreter that, she has ferociously rebuffed.

Societynow.ng learned that some of the demands bothered on the ‘’indecent’’ and the actress passionately ‘’turned them down’’.

Insiders disclosed Iya Rainbow’s attempt to stick to the old ways of ‘’ demand for respect’’ resulted in been branded ‘’ difficult to work with’’.

‘’The young producers want to have things their way, they have the money and don’t care about your opinion and Iya Rainbow refused to bend to the whims and the painful truth is that Iya Rainbow was quietly eased to the background for standing for what is right and proper’’ societynow.ng learned.

Insiders confirmed that although she still gets this and that role far and in between prolonged spells, one of the nation’s most respected actors has delved more into evangelism as a member of the Cherubim and Seraphim movement than practicing her claim to fame- acting.