Actress Martha Ankomah has admitted that while she loves the storylines of Kumawood movies, but thinks the use of witchcraft and juju do not make sense.
This, she noted, is part of the reasons why she is unable to feature in any Kumawood movies.
In an interview on Hitz FM, she said “I love Kumawood movies but what I dislike about their movies is the fetish stuff they inculcate into them.
"Apart from that, I love their storylines and they use to have really good movies like ‘Kumasi y)nko)’ but of late most of their movies portray witchcraft and that does not motivate me to shoot with them,”
This notwithstanding, she said if she gets “a very good Kumawood story without witchcraft maybe I’ll consider it. I’m not scared and it is not against my beliefs but for me, it sincerely doesn’t make sense.”
The actress, who recently inaugurated her Martha Ankomah Foundation, went on to speak about some of the challenges faced by both the Ghanaian and Nigerian movie industries.
According to her, Ghanaians are tired of watching movies with the same storylines thus the low patronage.
“The truth of the matter is, people, say our movie industry is going down but I think we are working on it now suffice to say the problem is with the kind of movies we shoot now.
“I guess people are tired of all these old love stories and so some of us are trying to talk to the producers and directors to shoot very good movies. I mean movies with good moral values, movies that people can watch and learn something from and so that is what we are working on,” she noted.
Martha Ankomah added “my biggest challenge is that we don’t really get roles like we used to especially those of us who go to Nigeria."
"Nigerians pay very well but right now their economy is in a very bad shape and even when they call you, they would want to pay you very well but after calculating all that you’ve had to put into travelling and all, you’ll realise you’re on a losing end and wouldn’t want to go after all,” she added.
Source: Hitz FM
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MARTHA ANKOMAH CAN GO TO HELL,SUCH AN IGNORAMUS...SHE DOESNT KNOW JACK ABOUT MOVIES,SHE BETTER ***barred word*** OR ELSE,WE WILL SHUT IT UP FOR HER,WHO DID DRACULAR,VAMPIRES,THE HOUSE AND SO ON,IS IT KUMAWOOD?NO,HOLLYWOOD..SHE DOESNT EVEN KNOW THAT THERE IS A TYPE OR GENRE OF MOVIES CALLED HORRROR MOVIES AND THEY HAVE THEIR OWN FANS...YOU DO ROMANTIC OR GLAMOUR MOVIES,DO YOU THINK THAT ALL GHANAINS LOVE YOOUR KIND OF MOVIES?IGNORAMUS...IF KUMAWOOD IS BELOW YOUR STANDARD,GO TO HOLLYWOOD AND TRY YOUR STRENGT THERE WAI...NHWE HWE ANIM ACTRESS,ATTENTION SEEKER...WAAMBOTO
that's why she remains a low life actor let her wobble in her ignorance pathetic character
It is true that many Nollywood movies also have witchcrafts in them but Martha doesnt see anything wrong with them and still feature in nigeria movies. such hypocrisy must be condemn. Witchcraft is in the bible what do you have to say about that Martha? Are you a Christian? Do you believe in bible? If yes then you have no excuse. Witchcraft is real its in the bible.
I disagree with Martha using witchcraft as an excuse for not featuring in kumawood movies, the same witchcraft appears in most of Nollywood movies but then she prefers to act in Nollywood.
This girl touched my heart this morning. The ONLY movie I liked in their concert.
SO WHO IS IN CHARGE PAPA J'S WARDROBE, HIS SHIRT DOESN'T BE FIT HIS STATUS PLEASE
So so right
Really I thought you were going to give a bad reason like some of the actors or actresses do. However the issue of fetish and witchcraft being the cause of all problems is my biggest problems with Kumawood. Apart from that I believe they have talents to do very good movies. But the fetish stuff is too bad for my taste
hi martha,i really love u soooo much am one of your best fun keep it up.