WHAT category were you nominated for?Best Actor in a Leading Role for the movie titled Somewhere in Africa.
Who are the other actors in that category?
There is Menzi Ngubane for the movies How To Steal 2 Million, Chet Anekwe for Unwanted Guest, Jafta Mamabolo for Otelo Burning, Karabo Lance for 48, Wale Ojo for Phone Swap and Hakeem Kae-Kazim for Man On Ground. These are tough people. It’s a very scary and precarious situation to put me in but in all, we are celebrating ourselves.
Is this the first time you’re being nominated for the category of Best Actor in a Leading Role?
What! This is my fourth nomination consecutively since 2009. I was nominated in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 so that’s four times consecutively.
Do you feel bad that you’ve never won the award?
Being nominated is a big honour on its own. You usually don’t care about the winning. The winning just comes. It’s just the icing on the cake when you’re a winner. To be nominated for AMAA Award is a great privilege just like it is to win. To be nominated means that you are recognised. It’s not really about winning, winning comes and that seals the deal finally. But yeah, we are usually excited when we are nominated.
What will winning the AMAA Award mean to you?
That will be incredible. It will be memorable for me. 2012 is an extraordinary year on its own so having been nominated since 2009; if I win, it will be incredible.
You’re one actor from Ghollywood that is mostly wooed by Nigerian producers. What endears them to you?
An actor is an actor. Act is an act; it’s just like a painting on the wall. It doesn’t have to attract just Nigerians or Ghanaians or people from Kenya or South Africa. It must attract people from any part of the world and that is pure act. It should attract a Chinese man; it should attract a German. Regardless of where I come from, I am an actor. So, I don’t categorise myself as a Ghanaian or Nigerian actor. It just happened that I was born in Ghana. I’m a universal actor and can fit into any given role.
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