Abraham Attah
Award-winning Ghanaian international actor, Abraham Attah, has said he will star in Ghanaian movies only if they have a future.
Speaking in an interview with Abeiku Santana on UTV, the Hollywood actor added that if the particular movie he will feature in will be uploaded on Netflix, he will gladly embrace that role.
“I haven’t gotten any script from any Ghanaian director but should they need my services to feature in a local movie, that movie should have a future and should be on an international platform like Netflix. I have a manager in Ghana and in USA who send me scripts if only the movie is good,” Abraham Attah revealed.
Abraham Attah gained international prominence playing lead role alongside Idris Elba in the movie, ‘Beasts of No Nation’, directed by Emmy Award-winning Cary Fukunaga.
Playing the character Agu, who when civil war tears his family apart is forced to join a unit of mercenary fighters and transformed into a child soldier, earned Attah praise around the world.
He won Marcello Mastroianni Award for best young actor at Venice Film Festival 2015, best male lead award at the 2016 Independent Spirit Awards, and also rising star award at the Black Film Critics Circle (BFCC).
The award scheme called Attah’s role as “one of the strongest and most phenomenal we have ever seen” and added that he has “a very bright future ahead of him”.
The movie was based on the 2005 novel of the same title by Uzodinma Iweala. Shot in Ghana, it starred Ama K. Abebrese, Fred Amugi and Grace Nortey. The movie was the first fictional feature produced and distributed by streaming service, Netflix.
-kasapafmonline