In an explosive exchange, the President of the Ghana actors’ guild has sent a strong warning to Deloris Frimpong Manso concerning her recent commercials on holding auditions to find the next ‘Afia Schwarzeneggar’ Delay has been running commercials on the coming auditions for about two weeks now.
Personally my main issue with the auditions for the series started when I noticed there was a price tag on the audition. Actresses who wish to audition for the role have to pay 30 Ghana Cedis which I find completely wrong.
It is unacceptable to charge or be charged for an audition. I tell people this constantly, if they are charging you for an audition, do not pay. It is within your rights as an artiste not to pay for auditions.
Anyway, that’s where my problem ends but The Actors’ Guild President Samuel Nii Odoi Mensah, seems to have a bigger score to settle with Delay. And I think he could have put his point across without sounding so Chauvinistic and disrespectful of women.
In his words on peacefm;
Delay has no right to hold auditions to search for an actress to play the role because she is neither a member of the Ghana Actors Guild nor the Film Producers Association of Ghana (FIPAG).
“This time, she will not get it easy. If she thinks she knows big men and so she can find her way through, we would also tell her that we are the Ghana Actors Guild. We have been quiet for some time now because we want sleeping dogs to lie but this time if you want to touch us, we would touch you because it is becoming too much…You see, when people come to small limelight, then they want to use it against others. It is not right. It is not right at all.”
He said her charging for the auditions is also fraudulent and she is exploiting the public.
I agree on the fact that it is fraudulent and criminal but Mr. Samuel Nii Odoi Mensah, the part on knowing ‘big men’ was uncalled for. Can a woman not rise by fair means in this country anymore? Does it always have to be through men?
Anyway, you know Delay will respond to this don’t you? And she did!