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Actor Prince David Osei has expressed his gratitude to the casting directors of the \u2018Woman is King\u2019 movie who considered him for a role he auditioned for but didn\u2019t get.<\/p>\n
In a recent interview with Doreen Avio<\/strong> on Hitz FM<\/strong>, he explained that he was contacted by a casting director based in California via Instagram, who asked him to audition for the role of Oba Ade<\/em>, the villain in the movie \u2018Woman is King.\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cCasting director based in Los Angeles, California she does a lot of casting for big Hollywood movies, she contacted me via Instagram and asked me to audition and we took it up from there,\u201d Prince David Osei said.<\/p>\n Oba Ade <\/em>is an Oyo General who couldn\u2019t stand the idea of a woman being a soldier and becomes the antagonist to the \u2018Agojie\u2019 \u2013 the all-women warrior of the Dahomey Kingdom and their general, Nanisca \u2013 played by Viola Davis.<\/p>\n The Oba Ade <\/em>role was later played by Nigerian actor Jimmy Odukoya.<\/p>\n He also shared that the audition process was easy to handle and was asked to send a video of himself auditioning for the role.<\/p>\n \u201cThe audition process was cool, I was sent a script and I was asked to self-tape myself doing the lines and send it back to them.\u201d<\/p>\n The Heart of Men<\/em> actor shared his disappointment in not getting the role.<\/p>\n \u201cTo be very honest with you, I don\u2019t know why I wasn\u2019t selected, because we got far. We spoke about money and all that, looking at the movie they needed a Nigerian because the person who was going to play that role needed to portray the Nigerian culture.<\/p>\n \u201cI guess that\u2019s what happened because, after my audition, I was shortlisted. We spoke about money and everything, but looks like they went the other way,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n He added, \u201cI\u2019m very grateful and humbled to be allowed to audition for such a major role, because there are other actors who are there but I was considered.\u201d<\/p>\n DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Actor Prince David Osei has expressed his gratitude to the casting directors of the \u2018Woman is King\u2019 movie who considered him for a role he auditioned for but didn\u2019t get. In a recent interview with Doreen Avio on Hitz FM, he explained that he was contacted by a casting director based in California via Instagram, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1220665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[29501,2091,3817,126,512,1730,5342,1029],"class_list":["post-1260231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-auditioned","tag-david","tag-directors","tag-king","tag-osei","tag-prince","tag-role","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1260231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1260231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1260231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1260231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}