I’m just confident and not arrogant - Lydia Forson

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oguaaman 10 years ago

Lydia, keep it up, my role model/mentor.

Lydia, keep it up, my role model/mentor.
sam kodi 10 years ago

It was Desmond Eliot who was helping her to appear in most films, But it like Desmond has stopped helping her and that is why she can not appear in the move any more like before.

It was Desmond Eliot who was helping her to appear in most films, But it like Desmond has stopped helping her and that is why she can not appear in the move any more like before.
Paul Amuna 10 years ago

I rather respect actors who don't take any silly role that comes their way just because they want to appear in movies or make money. In this regard, I respect what Lydia Forson is saying (although I don't know her and cannot ...
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I rather respect actors who don't take any silly role that comes their way just because they want to appear in movies or make money. In this regard, I respect what Lydia Forson is saying (although I don't know her and cannot judge her true character).

It is all too common to see fine actors accept roles that simply don't suit their character, personality and intellect. I have seen some young and fine actors gradually degenerate into silly actors just because they are not wise enough and bold or assertive enough to SAY NO to any role.

Perhaps our Ghanaian (and other African actors) should read Sydney Poiteir's autobiography and they will learn a lot about how to become great as an actor without stooping low. Learning to be yourself. My respect for the man has grown since reading his memoirs in which he makes you see what a remarkable man he is coming from very humble beginnings in the Bahamas.

If you happen to watch "Guess who's coming to Dinner (1963)", and "To Sir with Love" among others, you will begin to appreciate what a trend-setter Poitier was, and how his assertiveness and his wopnderful portrayals in these movies helped pave the way for the likes today of Denzel Washington, Cuba Gooding, Forrester, Wishburn, Samuel L Jackson and other fantastic black actors, not to mention Whoopi Goldberg, Haille Berry etc. from the female side.

In the 1950s and 1960s at the height of the civil rights movement and the struggle for "black" emancipation in America and most of the world, Poitier in "Guess who's coming to dinner" played the role of an eminent medical doctor and graduate of Princeton working with the WHO who had fallen in love with a "White" girl whose parents were renowned for their liberal stance and their belief in "equality" etc. which they had taught her.

The reality was quite different when she showed up with him at their home to celebrate their "engagement". Quite apart from the high drama and the beautiful portrayals on all sides (including Poitirer's own "parents", there was much more to that movie. It set a tone about the ability of the black person, his confidence, assertivenss, intelligence and above all being equal to everyone else. One of the worries of the parents of his fiancee was -"how will people treat your children"? to which their daughter replied, "Oh, our first one will be a girl and she will be fine. She may even become the president of the United States"!!!

As if a prophesy, at the time when that movie was made and when that utterance was being made, somewhere not too far away in Hawaii, a Kenyan man had just had a baby boy with a young (18 year old) white girl whose parents and the entire community resented (and almost rejected) the whole affair. Little did we know, and in case you have not yet figured out and put the two stories together, 43 years later, that "mixed race boy" born at the time when Sydney Poitier played "Dr Prentice" in "Guess who's coming to Dinner", became the first "black" president of the United States of America. He is the 42nd and 43rd president of the US and his name is BARACK OBAMA!!!

My simple point is this: Poitier REFUSED to play roles that either demeaned, degraded or portrayed an inferiority in him as the condition of the black man. He turned down many film roles simply because he wanted to be himself. If Lydia Forson has decided to assert herself in that way and to focus her career in making movies that really count and that will become classics (like Guess who's coming to dinner) and give her her stature in the movie industry, who cares about what others say of her, be they film makers, producers or directors! To me she is perfectly entitled to her stance and yes, respect is EARNED and "cuts both ways". Good luck to her.

If film directors, producers and what have you think they "made her" or wish to say, either you do it our way or ytou don't make a movie, then fine, but Ms Forson, please stick to you guns. It may be painful at times, but your dignity, integrity and standing are more important than any cheap movie, however much anyone wishes to pay you for it. I salute you!
KWAME OWUSU 10 years ago

GO LYDIA

GO LYDIA
Lydia 10 years ago

Well, everything she has said seems on point. But the word is "seems" who really knows if she is arrogant or not, or if she must humble herslf or if she is just simply amazing? Who knows?

Well, everything she has said seems on point. But the word is "seems" who really knows if she is arrogant or not, or if she must humble herslf or if she is just simply amazing? Who knows?
ROMANO 10 years ago

ONLY IN GHANA WEY U GO GO SEE THESE FAT FAKE ACTORS KUM ACTRESS LIKE THIS FAT BITCH

ONLY IN GHANA WEY U GO GO SEE THESE FAT FAKE ACTORS KUM ACTRESS LIKE THIS FAT BITCH
REAL Ghanaman 10 years ago

I WOULD RATHER DATE HER THAN THE CHEAP AND EVIL IBO GIRLS BABY MACHINE FOR SALE.

I WOULD RATHER DATE HER THAN THE CHEAP AND EVIL IBO GIRLS BABY MACHINE FOR SALE.
mil 10 years ago

lmaooooooooo she is arrogant tho

lmaooooooooo she is arrogant tho
Girlie 10 years ago

You make me proud to be a ghanaian

You make me proud to be a ghanaian
lydia.usa 10 years ago

Goooo sis i am so proud of you.you are
decent actress not like some cheap
actors

Goooo sis i am so proud of you.you are
decent actress not like some cheap
actors
HAWA YAKUBU 10 years ago

This is my kind of sister.Strong minded person.Keep it up and don,t look back my sister.Be yourself and don,t be any ones little dog.You are beautiful and smart what do you need a man for.Most men are afraid of women like you ...
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This is my kind of sister.Strong minded person.Keep it up and don,t look back my sister.Be yourself and don,t be any ones little dog.You are beautiful and smart what do you need a man for.Most men are afraid of women like you.Do like the men players do hit and run and tell don,t call me. I call you when i want some.
HOO-YAH 10 years ago

lydia forson is the best actress in ghana

lydia forson is the best actress in ghana
Naa, Dansoman 10 years ago

Lydia, i do really like u and the way you act. Go girl, follow your ideas in life. But one advice - in pursuing what you believe in, u may hurt pple on the way. Dont take criticisms for granted. There may be a point or two th ...
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Lydia, i do really like u and the way you act. Go girl, follow your ideas in life. But one advice - in pursuing what you believe in, u may hurt pple on the way. Dont take criticisms for granted. There may be a point or two that you need to consider. In yr quiet time, ponder over such, make amends and move on. No one is perfect, though. Pursue yr dreams. Go girl.....
Dwight,USA. 10 years ago

Am I the only one who sees that she is too fat? This kind of stature can only earn her roles when she grows a little more and can act as someones mother. No hard feelings but with this your size, your greatest achievement may ...
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Am I the only one who sees that she is too fat? This kind of stature can only earn her roles when she grows a little more and can act as someones mother. No hard feelings but with this your size, your greatest achievement may only be in Africa. I wonder what you are confident about??????
preciouse 10 years ago

You have no manner's
stupid fool lo! May the Lord panish you for insulting her.

You have no manner's
stupid fool lo! May the Lord panish you for insulting her.
Efua 10 years ago

She is very articulate and a good actress.

She is very articulate and a good actress.
Bignblk 10 years ago

I will agree with Naa that no one is perfect and we cant always please everyone as we grow in our career and life. I am a big fun of you because you look like a special lady friend of mine. You are a beautiful woman and I lik ...
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I will agree with Naa that no one is perfect and we cant always please everyone as we grow in our career and life. I am a big fun of you because you look like a special lady friend of mine. You are a beautiful woman and I like the way you looked in the nurse uniform when you played in "scorned". Keep on doing the good work and I am happy for the new role you are playing in scandal. Pursue your dreams my dear.

I’m just confident and not arrogant - Lydia Forson

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