Popular Ghanaian actress Yvonne Okoro has revealed that she was once denied a movie role because of the colour of her skin.
However, she says she doesn’t think the issue of colour is still an issue in the Ghanaian movie industry at the moment because a lot has changed over the years.
The beautiful actress cum producer made the revelation while reacting to claims that actresses must look a certain way to get movie roles when she spoke at the African Women in Film Forum held at Alliance Francaise.
“…I remember I was told that I am not too fair, which is weird to me because a lot of people don’t talk about that. In our industry there are times that you are not a certain type of way or you are not a certain type of colour so you don’t appeal to the masses.
But now that people have come to understand and believe that black is good, we are all different types of humans, we can’t be the same. We all can’t be light or black…so now as much as there is negativity in terms of how they want people to look, I think that we have changed to a certain point.
We have come to accept certain things- which are our colour, how we look- and in a way we don’t let people dictate who we are and what one should be. It is now not about how you look but the kind of story you are telling. The content we sell to people is changing,” Yvonne said.
By: Genny Paulawhite
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