Akofa Edjeani , the seasoned actress from Ghana, has now spoken up about a difficult incident that cost her a movie part early in her career.
She asserts that sexual harassment in the entertainment business is pervasive and is progressively becoming a problem that has to be addressed right away.
In an interview with Joy FM’s Showbiz A-Z, the screen queen discussed some of the difficulties faced by women in the entertainment business.
“ I remember we were shooting somewhere after Kumasi, I think. Unfortunately, the producer was a Nigerian. We were going to shoot two movies back-to-back.
So based on that, the executive producer had begged me to bring my rates down, saying that because we were doing two movies, he would pay a certain amount, which I reluctantly agreed to.
Now here is the director who asked me to come to his room. I said, ‘Come to your room and do what? ‘.
He said, ‘to watch a movie’. I said, ‘Watch what movie? I mean, come on, whatever you want to tell me, I don’t need to come to your room’. Apparently, he wanted something else. I said, ‘Like seriously?’ Are you serious?
“ I didn’t go to his room, and guess what? That caused me to watch the next movie. And when I asked the executive producer, he said it was the director who was casting, but I said, ‘You were paying me this amount because we agreed on shooting two movies.
