Dancehall artiste, Shatta Wale, has expressed his desire to work on a film project with veteran actor, Fred Amugi, who the singer refers to as “one of the greatest.”
Explaining the circumstances that led to the brief disruption during IGP Dampare’s meeting with creative arts stakeholders at the Police Headquarters in Accra on November 10, 2021, Shatta Wale said he was incensed when a police officer stopped him from filming his idol, Fred Amugi.
The singer, in an interview with Accra-based Adom FM, said he had protested after a police officer attempted to stop him from using his phone’s camera to film the 73-year-old actor who was making a submission.
According to the musician, he felt the action by the officer was unfair since other people in the meeting hall were filming the session with their smartphones.
“I saw people taking out their phones, and nobody was talking to them, so I felt ‘let me just take my phone because Fred Amugi (actor) has been one of my greatest actors that I really want to do a film with. So when he was talking, I felt what he was saying was so important to me that I had to keep it for myself.”
“I took a video, and one of the police officers came and was like ‘phones are not allowed, but you know people were taking pictures before I came, so I felt like it was a bit rude,” he added.
Fred Amugi was born in Accra in 1948, and rose to gain widespread popularity in the local scene for his role in the 1985 television series ‘Opinto’.
He has starred in several Ghanaian movies including Shoe Shine Boy (2013), Nyame Bekyere 1&2 (2015), Menua Paa Nie (2016), Housekeepers (2016).
His first international role came in 2005 when he played the character Kwame Attakora in the BBC drama Holby City.
In the 2015 Netflix movie, ‘Beasts of No Nation,’ he played the role of a pastor.
Fred Amugi also played the character ‘Pastor Uchebo’ in the 2015 British award-winning movie, ‘The Cursed Ones’.
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By: Lord Kweku Sekyi
