Actress and philanthropist Fella Makafui has talked candidly about her first rejection to play Serwaa in the hit television show “YOLO.”
Speaking on Thursday, May 2, on The Afternoon Show, the businesswoman and filmmaker revealed that she turned down the role of Serwaa when director Ivan Quashigah offered it to her following her audition for a part in YOLO.
Fella claims that she had her eye on the YOLO series character Emily, who plays Cyril’s girlfriend, and she wanted to portray Emily during the audition process.
She emphasized that, before to making her acting debut in the YOLO series, she worked for her mother as a bread seller and didn’t want to do the same in YOLO.
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“I actually declined taking the role Serwaa, I told him [Ivan Quashigah] that I won’t do YOLO. Even with the auditions, I told him I won’t do it because I believed so much in myself that back then I did not know that as an actor, I have to go through that process.
“When we were doing the auditions, I was catching one role – I wanted to play the role of Emily but I was told to act as Serwaa and I didn’t want because I was selling bread for my mother even before coming to Accra, so why would I be doing the same in movie,” she said on TV3’s The Afternoon Show.
Fella is presently promoting “Resonance,” her feature debut, which opens on May 11 at Silverbird Cinemas and the Accra Mall.
The movie’s premiere tickets cost GHC100 and are sold at theaters.
