Legendary Ghanaian actress, Grace Omaboe, also known as Maame Dokono is concerned over the quality of movies produced by Ghana’s movie industry.
According to her, movies produced by the movie industry now has no life lessons that could positively impact the lives of movie lovers and Ghanaians as a whole.
Maame Dokono mentioned that, she only patronises made in Ghana movies just for pleasure and not because she hopes to learn something positive from the movie.
“I look at it [the movie industry] and I laugh in my head because I don’t see much lessons in what they are doing these days. I listen to it and maybe I watch it for the fun of it,” she said in a report on asaaseradio.com.
She also commented on roles and cast in modern movies and wondered why young actors were made to play the roles of old people when there are elderly actors in the movie industry.
She said, “But during our time, we were not many, just a few of us. When a father, should play a father role, he’s an old man, an elderly man; he’s not made up with moustache and all that, powder and all that.”
She recounted a time when she had to reject a role in a Kumawood movie because the producers wanted to cast her as the wife for young actor, LilWin.
“I remember one time they asked me to come and do a Kumawood movie and somebody was supposed to play my husband. I said, ah, how can a small boy like this play my husband?”
“You know, maybe I should mention the name, LilWin. Yes, playing my husband. No, it can’t happen. I will not play [that role] because what at all is he going to tell me? So I didn’t play [the role] and they got angry with me,” she narrated.
Source: Ghanaweb