Stop linking characters we play to our personalities – Actors cry out

Some Ghanaian actors have described as unfair, the negative perceptions the public have about them due to the characters they play in movies.

According to them, people mistakenly believe that the characters they play in movies are their real lives and, therefore, treat them as such.

This comes after popular Nollywood Actor, Chiwetalu Agu, who is well known for playing “evil” roles in movies, revealed that the negative reaction of fans towards his wicked roles has what led him into acting comic roles.

They recounted what they termed as their unpleasant experience on Daybreak Hitz (Showbiz Review) on Hitz Fm.

Veteran Actor Abeiku Seigo admitted that the roles he plays had a serious effect on his private life.

He recounts how he was verbally attacked by some young men at a wedding reception in the early 2000’s over a character he played (a strict father who over protected his daughter in the movie ‘Cry for love.'

‘I was the lead cast in the movie where I was very hard on Omar Sherrif, who was chasing my daughter Linda Quarshiga. Two weeks after the film was released, I went for a wedding reception, and two guys saw me, one of them said “This man annoys me so much, he is wicked. What kind of a father is this” Abieku recounted?

He wondered why people react to actors as if the characters they play in movies are their real lives especially when one plays a particular role for a long time in a running series.

Award winning actor, Prince David Osei also shared a bitter experience he went through in London.

‘I traveled to London with my cousin and tried to go into a lady's house, and she refused to let me in because she said I am mean and wicked but allowed my cousin in." he narrated.

"It was when I started talking that she realized that I was different from what she perceived me to be.

"She later confessed, saying that ‘you are so mean and wicked on TV, but I have noticed that you are far different from that”.

Kumawood actor Bill Asamoah, who also recounted his ordeal, said “I went to MC an occasion about a year ago. A young man walked to me and openly said that he used to hate me but after seeing me MC the show the hatred has vanished’.

The movie stars after sharing the humiliation they go through appealed to the public to decouple the characters they play from their personal lives.