{"id":1261655,"date":"2022-12-05T12:23:37","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T12:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/05\/they-contacted-me-prince-osei-reveals-producers-of-hollywood-movie-woman-king-wanted-him-to-play-the-role-of-oba-ade\/"},"modified":"2022-12-05T12:23:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T12:23:37","slug":"they-contacted-me-prince-osei-reveals-producers-of-hollywood-movie-woman-king-wanted-him-to-play-the-role-of-oba-ade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/05\/they-contacted-me-prince-osei-reveals-producers-of-hollywood-movie-woman-king-wanted-him-to-play-the-role-of-oba-ade\/","title":{"rendered":"They contacted me- Prince Osei reveals producers of Hollywood movie, &#8216;Woman King&#8217; wanted him to play the role of Oba Ade \u00bb \u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_33\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-prince-david-osei-has-revealed-that-he-actually-auditioned-for-a-role-in-the-blockbuster-movie-the-woman-king-while-expressing-his-gratitude-to-the-casting-directors-for-taking-him-into-consideration\">Prince David Osei has revealed that he actually auditioned for a role in the blockbuster movie \u201cThe Woman King,\u201d while expressing his gratitude to the casting directors for taking him into consideration. <\/h2>\n<p>He said in a recent interview with Doreen Avio on Hitz FM, the Ghanaian actor and New Patriotic Party (NPP) fanatic said he received a request to audition for the part of Oba Ade, the bad guy in the film \u201cThe Woman King,\u201d via Instagram from a casting director stationed in California.<\/p>\n<p>\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<p>The character Oba Ade is a General who detested the concept of a woman serving in the military, opposes Viola Davis\u2019 all-female fighter known as Agojie and the Dahomey Kingdom\u2019s general, Nanisca.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Oba Ade\u00a0<\/em>role was later played by Nigerian actor Jimmy Odukoya. During the interview, Osei mentioned how simple the audition procedure was and how he had been asked to send a video of himself rehearsing for the part.<\/p>\n<p>\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<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Heart of Men<\/em>\u00a0actor shared his disappointment in not getting the role.<\/p>\n<p>\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<p>\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<p>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<p>SOURCE: <strong>www.Ghbase.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; Prince David Osei has revealed that he actually auditioned for a role in the blockbuster movie \u201cThe Woman King,\u201d while expressing his gratitude to the casting directors for taking him into consideration. He said in a recent interview with Doreen Avio on Hitz FM, the Ghanaian actor and New Patriotic Party (NPP) fanatic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1239801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[28751,29589,7398,126,197,761,512,463,1730,5364,51,5342,4657,1029],"class_list":{"0":"post-1261655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-ade","9":"tag-contacted","10":"tag-hollywood","11":"tag-king","12":"tag-movie","13":"tag-oba","14":"tag-osei","15":"tag-play","16":"tag-prince","17":"tag-producers","18":"tag-reveals","19":"tag-role","20":"tag-wanted","21":"tag-woman"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261655","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=1261655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}