Ghanaian actress, Ama K. Abebrese has shared her experience on the challenges actors and actresses face within and outside the movie industry.
Speaking to Joy Prime’s Roselyn Felli on the channel’s late afternoon show, ‘Changes’, the actress explained that acting requires resilience due to the struggles involved in securing movie roles.
“I hear ‘I want to act’ all the time. Being an actor is one of the most disappointing things you can be. It doesn’t matter what part of the world you’re in.
“Let’s say that you’ve auditioned for something you think you’ve done so great, and sometimes you can go to your first, second, or third; they can call you back like four times, and by the fourth time you think you’ve started cashing the cheque, knowing you’ve got the role, and then you don’t get it. So, it builds you up and pushes you down.
“So, you need to have a level of tough skin because it gets to a point where you start taking it personally,” she said.
“If I didn’t get it, it just meant sometimes it’s not for me, and there are times when you find out who got the role, and then you understand why you were not given the role,” she further noted.
Reflecting on her career, Ama K. Abebrese revealed that, despite being in the creative industry for years, she has appeared in only about twenty films.
She expressed satisfaction with this, as most of the movies she has featured in have been impactful and well-received. Her focus, she highlighted, is on the quality of the films rather than the quantity.
