‘Avoid juju; work hard to achieve success’ – Fred Amugi to young actors

Veteran Ghanaian actor, Fred Nii Amugi, has cautioned up and coming actors against the use of juju (spiritism) as a means of ascending to success in the Ghana movie industry.

Although the actor mentioned that he can establish for a fact that actors in the movie industry use juju to become successful or to impede the growth of colleagues, he has heard of such rumours and that there could be some truth to it.

Fred Amugi explained that, the use of juju, especially to avert the success and growth of others is useless because actors may not secure roles they are envious of.

“We hear about people using ‘juju’ to get roles and other things. There is a speck of truth in every rumour that you hear. So, if you’ve heard people say it, it means something of that nature is happening. I ask myself that, it’s just like I get a promotion and you think I didn’t deserve the promotion, so you cut me off. I’m dead and gone.

“You’re not going to take that seat anyway, so what’s your problem? God doesn’t like competition. He knows you cannot compete with Him, but when you bring these things, he would want to show you a few things that will tell you that what you’ve gotten to will not help, and this is the result now,” the legendary actor explained in a report on myjoyonline.com.

Fred Amugi narrated how he had to work diligently to acquire skills of acting without attending the School of Performing Art.

He recounted, “I was taught all the disciplines that go with acting, and many think I was at the School of Performing Art, which I never was. I’m one of the luckiest actors Ghana has produced. The lecturers at the School of Performing Arts in those days served as my mentors. So, I had my tuition outside the school.”

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