Ghanaian movie star, Abraham Attah has explained that he gave a bad speech at the 2016 Independent Spirit Awards because he wasn’t expecting to win the award.
He explained he did not prepare an acceptance speech because he never thought he would be announced winner of the ‘Best Male Lead’ category.
The ‘Beast of No Nation’ star picked up the award at a colourful ceremony held on Saturday night, February 27 at Santa Monica Beach, United States of America.
Attah's acceptance speech has for the past few days generated a lot of controversy with Lexis Bill, host of Drive Time on Joy FM and MzGee, host of the Entertainment News apologising for repeating his ‘Thank you, Thank you’.
Abraham Attah, who played his debut role as Agu, in the movie alongside Idris Elba, reacting to the reports said most people did not know what he went through at the awards.
He explained in a post on Instagram that, “I know that some of the radio presenters in Ghana are saying I gave a bad speech at the independent spirit awards. They don't know what happen to me. I thought was not going to win so I decided not to write any speech down. I was so surprised when she mention my name. I didn't know what to say when I went up there.”
Credit: Joy News
ReplyDeleteIn February 2016, I had the pleasure of was watching Lawrence O’Donnell, who hosts MSNBC’s Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell when he took the Oscar to task on its selection process. As was later reported, O’Donnell‘s “fusillade of arrows aimed at Hollywood and the Academy Awards. O’Donnell used the final segment of his program for a withering takedown of the Oscars’ nominating process that resulted in this year’s all-white acting nominees, while blasting presumably clueless voters for ignoring both and, especially, Beasts Of No Nation, Idris Elba and Straight Outta Compton… The host — one of prime time cable’s smartest observers of the political and cultural scenes — declared the latter film and its star, Idris Elba, deserving of at least as much attention as any of the other nominees.”
The aforementioned movies were on my list to see When I did watched Beast of No Nation, without saying Idris Elba delivered a great performance, equally super, as Agu, Abraham Attah performance was very impressive, heartfelt and deserving of recognition.
All the very best to Abraham Attah!