Even though Baby Cele is an award-winning actress and one of the most recognised faces in Mzansi, she still feels like she's constantly fighting to be respected and be paid what she deserves.
Baby is on cloud nine after winning The Best Actress award at the Simon Sabela Film and Television Awards, but told TshisaLIVE that she recently had a run-in with a big name production over payment.
"What frustrates me the most about the industry is payments. You have to fight all the time. Recently, I felt so insulted. I received a call, and I won't mention names, but one of the producers got someone from their office to call me. They wanted me to join their soapie. It was a big name, and it was before Uzalo.
"When they told me the fee, how much I was going to get for three months work, it was appalling. I used to get that fee years ago, more than 15 years ago."
Babes said she felt disrespected because some producers, who were previously actors themselves and joined the industry with her, still offered her such low amounts.
She told them to where to get off.