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Ghanaian actor, Edward Agyekum Kufuor has recounted his experience of successfully portraying a character that captivated a friend.
During an interview on The Afternoon Show on TV3, the actor remembered playing the husband of Nana Ama McBrown in the film ‘Adam’s Apple’ where his character had an ongoing affair with his ex-girlfriend Joselyn Dumas.
He believed he portrayed the character convincingly enough for his female friend to mistake him for actually cheating on his wife in the movie when they met at the gym later.
The former President John Agyekum Kufuor’s son mentioned that his friend’s inability to differentiate between reality and the movie was the best compliment he received as an actor.
“For me, I think is the best compliment that your viewers can pay you when you play the role so well that they cannot distinguish between you and the character. For an actor, when you have done well, the viewers need to come away with it.
“It happened to me at Aviation. I was at the gym with my wife and she was on the treadmill next to me. I had just played in Adam’s Apple. A friend of us just walks to me, she had a newspaper and she walked at me and smacked me and I almost fell off because I wasn’t expecting it,” he shared on September 4.
He continued: “I was like what is going on? So, she walks up to me and says ‘You have a beautiful wife and had an extra marital affair’ and I was like what is she talking about, my wife was standing right beside me.”
He added: “And she said ‘the Adam’s Apple movie, as for men that’s how you are’ and I was thinking has she absolutely lost it? It’s a movie. Nana Ama McBrown was my wife in Adam’s Apple and I was having a recurrent affair with Joselyn, my ex in the movie.”
“Later on, I thought I must have left an impression that she prefers walking up to me that she really had to tell me and smacked me. It is a compliment,” he said.
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