Most Ghanaian celebrities we have faced with the question of trading sex for movie roles in the Ghanaian movie industry have denied ever doing that but knowing of its existence in the industry.
I quite remember during our Audio interview with Yvonne Nelson (posted below again); she also acknowledged the fact that this dirty practice has been deep rooted in our entertainment industry. But she has not been asked for sex in exchange for any role….
Some good for nothing directors (except their big pot bellys) are taking advantage of desperate and talented young girls, who seek to enter the Ghanaian movie industry. It is sad to hear or read mails like the one below. No wonder our screens are filled with so many talentless actresses.
How on earth can a man of one’s father’s age with little money to produce crap movies ask a girl of his daughter’s age to sleep with him before considering giving her a role… Pathetic indeed!… Read below what happened to a young sister I spoke to today after receiving her mail in her attempt to become a movie star in Ghana….
Dear GhanaCelebrities.Com,
I have tried calling your contact number provided on GhanaCelebrities.Com several times with no success. I have therefore decided to write and bring to your attention to help bring it to the attention of your readers and the entire Ghanaian population the undesired sex for movie role practice going on within the Ghanaian movie industry.
I am a young Ghanaian woman of 22 years of age, a graduate from an American University (Major in Drama). I have always had an interest to become a movie actress and many around me have enhanced my confidence by saying, I have the talent owing to what they have seen from my College theatre works.
Being a Ghanaian with strong ties to my motherland coupled with the recent quality trend our movie industry is taking, I decided to come to Ghana to help the developing industry with my talent and in turn become the actress I have always dreamt of becoming.
After months of audition, I landed on a role but did not like the assigned character since it demanded a little bit of nudity from me. I said no to this role because I did not want to start a career with a nude role and image.
The director who gave me this role was not ready for a switch and insisted I take it or close my eyes to becoming an actress in Ghana. I decided to go for the latter option.
Just last Saturday, the director called me to meet him at Accra Mall for a discussion about the rejected role and possibly a switch or amendment. I am not going to say, I am desperate but I have the edge to become what I long for. I therefore thought God has listened to my prayers so happily decided to meet him.
After few minutes of greetings and the usual how have you been things, he told me he can give me the lead role and push of the actress ( a famous Ghanaian actress) he has fixed there if only I would meet him at a hotel in East Legon that night. With shock taking over my voice, I asked, What for?
He said for a good night together and I shouldn’t worry since most of the big names I see in movies have done it before. Nothing comes free and easy in life, it is just one night and you will forever be a star, he said.
He mentioned about 4 names of actresses he has slept with before giving them roles. I am not sure how true this is but I couldn’t believe what I heard.
I jumped off my chair, told him I am not that kind of girl and got into a taxi. I would be glad if other young Ghanaians out there are made aware of such ungodly acts by some of these movie directors. Together, we can say No to their cheap sex for movie role tricks. Thank You
Your Reader,
Suzzy, Accra, Ghana
Interview With Yvonne Nelson Below….
[audio:http://www.ghanacelebrities.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Yvonne-Nelson.mp3]
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those directors who go around mentioning names are fools,the big names he mentions ask him next time to say it to their faces i bet u he wld never dare open his foul mouth to lie like that.shameless man.it’s a producer who pays an actor so why d hell would u sleep wit a director?suzy,go to production houses and stop following those directors they lie.suzy pls mention that director’s name so GC can finish with him very well…pls do.kmt
I think I know who dis director is.No wonder they have transferred wat they do in their rooms onto the screen.These people are just selfish people who exploit the young men/women cos they’re desperate 4 money & fame.This spells doom 4 the future of this great nation Ghana.
@TheChuckylee, Help me with the name.
@Author: Ebenezer Anangfio Jnr.,Well I will help you on this one is the same person who made hotfork I spoke to him a couple if weeks ago and saying how hotfork was a successful movie and how he got a next one line up boosting about having a studio in Germany and working with top producers from the USA etc so ebenezer you might know how in talking about interview him and ask him If it ain’t true i got the whole conversation recorded
@Miyagi, The director of HOT FORK is Socrate ‘Kwabena’ Safo. How sure are you is the supposed director in the mail?
I want make a sex, move S.
@Author: Ebenezer Anangfio Jnr., Pls don’t take it so seriously,I was only joking cos I don’t have any proof.But I can give u a clue of which people I suspect.Which directors in their productions are so obsessed with including explicit scenes in their movies yet their products are nothing 2 write home about.It could be possible dat those I suspect are innocent but when someone around u is a habitual thief and your items get missing don’t u think dat person would be blamed first even if he/she is innocent?
@TheChuckylee, who is the director of hotfork?
@TheChuckylee, Yes please put that man on blast. I want to guess that the man’s name rhymes with Salahadine and I bet, I just bet one of the 4 actresses he named is that RussianGhana girl.
When I lived in Tema, these chicks use to say homegirl is a hoSlutLooseHarlot but of course I never believed em cause while they attended Central University she went to Legon and graduated earlier than them.
@Author: Ebenezer Anangfio Jnr.,yeah i knew his name but just didn’t want tp mention it as i was saying we had a long conversation about alot of things and trust me i am 99% sure about it i even spoke to him before the launch of the movie and how he was going to send me a copy of it and how he takes ………to do things before they can be put into his so called 5 star movie i even spoke to him on set when they where filming some scenes and how he made some few girls talk to me but when i was about to expose him on GC when the topic came out on your website he suddenly change his number by making one of young girls picking up the phone by saying that its a wrong number later a few weeks later same lady that picked up called me from her private number trying to talk to me by telling me how she wants to come to london be with me and all those things so i ask her why she lied to me and told me that she was force to act like i called a wrong number there is more to the story but want share it on here i will mail it for you once i come back from holiday maybe
who’s russian ghana girl?
@anne, just her first name Russian but for sure she’s not Russian. NB
the problem we have in Ghana most of our elderly are only interested in fufu, bitters and pussy and they only think about their funerals. that is why i respect only 15% of the grown up
when you talk with some of them you will think you are talking to a zombie
more so the only advise you can get from most of them when are u having six kids , where is your wife or husband, i am 70 years old , i have ten kids i have three wives, i have Grey hair. its time to set pension in ghana at 50 so that they reap all they sow before they go to see their maker. that is why its difficult to get married to young men today most of them have slept with almost all the old men for money and free ride in font seat and just the pleasure eating at some plush restaurant
Really?
THIS IS SO TRUE. MY SIS FROM ENGLAND CAME TO GHANA BECAUSE SHE WANTED TO ACT.AND SHE CAME HOME SAYING THIS THINGS. I CAN MENTION NAMES BUT NOT SURE IF SHE WILL BE HAPPY WITH THAT. SHE HAS NOW LOST TOTAL INTEREST IN MOVIE ACTING IN GHANA…I AM ADDICTED TO GHANACELEBRITIES SO WHEN SHE TOLD ME THIS I WAS SO DAMN CRAZY AND NEED TO CONTACT YOU PEOPLE BUT SO HARD. WHY IS IT LIKE THAT. WE HAVE LOTS OF VITAL INFO YOU MIGHT NEED . WE ARE HERE TO HELP THIS SITE IN ANY WAYS. IN DONATION AND IN NEWS
Bloody cowards!!!!!! , that is why ghana is the way it is , instead of mentioning names , u r hear beating abt the bush. very boring……..YAWNS^^^^
BTW……..Suzy, next time just come out and say the director’s name, I mean if you are going to come out with this story then you might as well be bold and mention his name. When you send an article like this without mentioning names, how are we readers going to bash out this director’s name. I find it hard to believe without any name mention. Sorry………….but that’s how I feel. PLEASE BE BOLD ENOUGH TO SAY HIS NAME!!
some of you are very pathetic and have no empathy . Something like this happened to a young sister and all you care about is name of director. Is the name of the director important than the message she is trying to send to all of us to be careful ? Go out there and test the waters and see. Yvonne said it in the interview I just listened. Did she mention any name ? Ghana four dea
@del the message is very important but my problem is why is she scared to bring out the name of the person? it makes me think that she acted in the heat at the moment and she might go back for the offer! what really stops u from mentioning the name of the person if u know u will never do such a thing,why cant u name and shame him?
Yvonne Nelson i say u suck ooooooooo tooom..u aint an actress period..