I turned down a role from Fiifi Gharbin for a different movie two years ago not ‘A Country Called Ghana’ – Martha Ankomah

Actress Martha Ankomah has explained that she never turned down a role for Lil Win’s ‘A Country Called Ghana’ movie.

She clarified that she only refused to be featured in a different movie for director Frank Fiifi Gharbin two years ago.

Martha Ankomah disclosed this while speaking on Accra 100.5 FM’s Entertainment Capital on August 7.

“Two years ago, Director Fiifi Gharbin called me to tell me he wanted to work with me,” Martha Ankomah said, clarifying: “It was not about their recent movie, A Country Called Ghana.”

She lamented how “people think they called me [for that movie] and I didn’t come to do it and I rubbished them”.

I have never met Lil Win in person, he only called me for a GTP favour in 2019 – Martha Ankomah

However, the actress and entrepreneur did not provide details about the particular movie by Gharbin.

“It was about a certain couple – you know what, at the right time when the court case is past, I’ll narrate the story”.

The movie star stressed, however, she only told Fiifi Gharbin that “tories about spirits don’t interest me.

“He pressed me but I told him the issue was with the storyline. I told him I wanted to work with him, [except for that].”

According to the actress, she had no idea who Fiifi Gharbin was and his contribution to the Kumawood industry prior to this phone call and movie role pitch.

“Were it not for this incident, I wouldn’t have known he was a Kumawood director, before God and man,” she stressed.

Furthermore, “Fiifi did not send me a script but narrated the story to me rather,” Martha Ankomah noted.

She said when she asked who else Gharbin had in mind for the movie, “he mentioned an actor I’ve never seen in a Kumawood movie before and so how was I to know it was a Kumawood movie I was rejecting?”

Martha said she further agreed with the director to work on a subsequent film project, “and that was the only time I spoke with Fiifi Gharbin – two years ago – since then, we’ve never spoken”.

The 2024 movie A Country Called Ghana is produced by Lil Win and directed by Fiifi Gharbin.

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