If you do, I’ll quit - Agya Koo threatens
gya Koo may be considering quitting
acting soon to concentrate on his music career.
The popular actor told Showbiz last
Monday, “It is said that you don’t live at a place for long if that place is
likely to bring you disgrace. That is why I have planned to quit acting and
concentrate on my music career if the producers continue to sideline me.”
He said that it had become
neccessary for him to take that step because some producers of Akan
speaking movies have ganged up against him seeking to forcefully oust him from
the business.
Until the emergence of actors Kwaku
Manu and Lil Win on the Akan movie scene, popularly called Kumawood, Agya Koo
enjoyed a huge following among movie enthusiasts.
But in recent times, the scales have
turned and Agya Koo is barely featured although he still believes that he is
the topmost actor as far as Akan movies go.
“It is quite interesting to hear
people say that Agya Koo’s time has passed”, he said in last Monday’s
interview. ” Do actors have expiry dates? How many of the old Nigerian
actors and actresses don’t we continue to watch in Nollywood movies? If they
are not that relevant, why are they featured in the movies?
“I know all the people championing
this propaganda. It is a clique of people who have just conspired because they
are probably envious of my progress in life.
They have warned their colleague
producers not to feature me in their movies. As if that is not enough, they
have also warned distributors not to sell my movies. Their excuse is that Agya
Koo is too expensive.
“I wonder when they got that
idea. For a long time, I have been charging the same fee so I get really
surprised when I hear statements like that. Besides, the same producers employ
the services of Nigerian actors and even pay them up to six times the fee I
charge.
“They would rather appreciate a
foreigner come to the country to make money and take back to their own country
than a Ghanaian because they hate to see a local actor drive in big cars and
live in big houses. My only crime is that I tell them my piece of mind when
things are not done right and when that happens, I am tagged as the
arrogant one.” he said.
Does Agya Koo concede that his
popularity has waned? “I don’t have any challenger in this industry. My talent
is unique. I don’t know if there has been any research conducted to test my
popularity but this is the challenge I am throwing to them, they can give it a
shot.
“You have no idea how people mob me
when I get to town especially in Kejetia. I don’t think that if I have lost my
public appeal I will get such reception from people when they see me” he said.
For now, Agya Koo is mostly into his
own productions. “I have decided to produce my own movies and thankfully, I have
got some producers on my side. I have made a couple of movies like Alhaji
Grunsah, Tanker Driver and Oyonko Bi Di Owuo which are scheduled for release
soon.
But as I said earlier, if things
don’t work out well, I will quit acting and pursue my music career. Who knows,
I might even end up being an evangelist” he said.
By: Gifty Owusu-Amoah
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