Dancehall artiste, Shatta Wale made a ‘couple of thousands’ from the movie Beasts of No Nation. He told Bola Ray and Anita Erskine in an interview on Starr FM Thursday afternoon.

Wale’s song Like My Thing was used as one of the soundtracks of the movie. He didn’t specify which currency he was paid in though.

The movie which premiered on Netflix and in selected Theaters in The United States of America on October 16 is said to have grossed some $83,861.

It was screened at number of prestigious film festivals including Venice, BFI London and Toronto International Film Festival.

The movie tells the story of Agu (Abraham Attah) who when civil war tears his family apart, is forced to join a unit of mercenary fighters and transformed into a child soldier.

Attah won Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor at Venice Film Festival 2015.


He laid to rest reports about whether he was a street vendor or not before he was discovered for his role in the movie in an interview with The New York Times.

“People are saying I was a street vendor, but I’m not a street vendor. I was in school. We were playing football on our school field, and a white man was watching when I was playing. I thought he needed someone for the football team. He told us we should go for an audition. I was working hard for the role, so I got the role.”

Idris Elba played the commander of  the mercenary unit. The movie is directed by Award-winning Cary Fukunaga.

Based on the 2005 novel of the same title by Uzodinma Iweala, it was partly shot in Ghana and also stars Ama K. Abebrese, David Dontoh and Grace Omaboe.

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