Some veteran actors have condemned the tendency by movie directors and producers to hand adult roles to young ones.
They said in an interview that, they are available to play those roles naturally instead of making young ones up to play those roles.
Speaking on the ‘showbiz’, two of these veteran actresses, Monica Quarcoopome and Leonora Buckman, said it is wrong to see directors and producers by-pass them with such roles and give them to the young ones.
“It’s just that they have ignored us,” actress Monica Quarcoopome said. “I don’t know what is happening now.”
“They won’t come to us, they won’t call us, and they won’t say anything like they used to do when we were on the screens at that time and coming on and people were applauding and people were happy seeing us on the road.”
She added that “Right now, when it got to a point, they started using the young ones and they neglected us. Trust me, you go back to our movies right now. Go back to say 10 years back, or 12 years back and you will see very young people.”
Leonora Buckman, who is also the President of Women in Arts, said the situation is so sickening to the extent that, you find an Akan playing the role of a Ga chief.
She said sometimes stakeholders take interest in them but for a short while and then they vanish into thin air.
Speaking with veteran actress, Grace Nortey, she expressed her displeasure on how she has been neglected and how that made her feel lonely. She also emphasized that it is not for money’s sake they ask to be checked on but then it only makes them happy.
“It’s true, it even makes me wonder sometimes how at once we don’t see anyone around us or have anyone to even ask of us and you are all alone in the house and feel very lonely and neglected. This does not make us happy in any way which is not right at all. It is not about food or money, which you may have people to provide. But then for your happiness, you will remember things and at that point it makes you feel sad. And that is the issue”
She however expressed that she has not regretted investing so much time into acting even at the expense of taking care of her family.
“I have not regretted it at all. As I sit here I have been acting for a very long time and it is something I love doing. The whole point is, if you love something wholeheartedly, you don’t have regrets at the end of the day when things do not go right. The only hurting part is the fact that I don’t get to see my people that is all”
However she mentioned that, she gets scripts for movie roles but her health does not permit her to take up those roles.
“Oh people do ask of me to take up roles even up till last year but then I have a problem with my eyes and it is with these same eyes I will use to learn the scripts. So I have to explain to them what the situation is and let go off the role. If not for that I would have been able to this, a thousand times”.
