Kumawood actor Clement Bonney has revealed why he has been missing in action for almost a year now.
According to Mr. Beautiful, he has not retired from acting as purported to be. His reasons for his absence he says is because the industry is dead with lots of people who do not know the first thing about what they are about passing as movie producers.
“I can never stop acting, if you really want to see me happy, put a camera on me, it is my passion and I can never stop doing it,” he said.
“The situation at the moment is that the industry is bad, when you have an industry where tomato sellers are becoming producers, that is what happens,” he stated.
“In as much as I love to act, I don’t settle for mediocrity and always like to associate myself with good quality productions. The movie Ama Ghana for instance became a hit because of Kohwe and myself, we brought our A-Game to bear on the production and that is what I mean by good creativity.
“I have great talent and that is why I don’t settle for mediocrity, I receive a lot of scripts but I don’t honour them because sometimes the directors don’t appeal to me, there are other times too that they give you scenes to act without dialogue, I can’t act that way so I reject them,” Mr Beautiful said.
“How come Shirley Frimpong Manso and Abdul Salam Mumuni’s movies sell, why are the local ones not selling? People who are not competent are shooting movies and that is why we find ourselves in this situation.”
“When they saw me with President Mahama they said when they shoot movies with me, it doesn’t sell in Kumasi but that is not true. We are not matured in democracy, political opponents are seen as enemies which should not be the case. If it is true that my association with President Mahama won’t make my movies sell in Kumasi, then we have a very long way to go.
“Denzel Washington, Oprah Winfrey and other Hollywood stars all have political parties but because they are far advanced in democracy, they don’t face this kind of discrimination,” he stated.
