Legendary Ghanaian actor, Adjetey Anang, has recounted that growing up he never envisaged becoming an established movie star.
In an interview with Rev. Erskine on the YLeaderboard segment of Y107.9 FM’s “Myd Morning Radio Show”, Adjetey Ananag disclosed that despite having “a thing for movies”, his father wished for he would follow in his steps and take up a career in the sciences.
“I knew that Dad would drop hints of me towing line in the sciences because he was a biochemist. I however looked at his life and I thought that look, I don’t want to position myself in that situation. He wasn’t a social person per se, and for him unfortunately, I was exposed to father and fatherhood on the screen. I see fathers come home and they are kind of with the kids going for this fun place and I think that was exciting. That’s the kind of father I want to be. I look at my dad and he wants me to follow the sciences and I’m like that’s boring because this is work-home-work-home,” he stressed.
“So for a long time I didn’t really know what I wanted to do,” he added.
For “Pusher” as he is affectionately called, the one thing that excited him most about movies was how actors could bring to life characters they ordinarily are not in real life.
“Growing up, I certainly had a thing for movies but I never saw myself as being in front of the camera. I just loved it and was excited about how people transformed characters that they’re not even in real life into reality and that was it,” he concluded.
Adjetey Anang highlighting his interests furthered, “Otherwise then, I think that partly because my uncles had a thing for tennis for example so, I tilted more into tennis. Football not really but tennis and Boxing more.”
