{"id":258198,"date":"2024-11-30T10:24:25","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T10:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/30\/i-was-mocked-and-discouraged-for-not-being-a-funny-comic-actor-kwadwo-nkansah\/"},"modified":"2024-11-30T10:24:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T10:24:25","slug":"i-was-mocked-and-discouraged-for-not-being-a-funny-comic-actor-kwadwo-nkansah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/30\/i-was-mocked-and-discouraged-for-not-being-a-funny-comic-actor-kwadwo-nkansah\/","title":{"rendered":"I was mocked and discouraged for not being a funny comic actor \u2013 Kwadwo Nkansah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/192\/19281692.295.jpg\" alt=\"Kumawood actor, Kwadwo Nkansah\" title=\"Kumawood actor, Kwadwo Nkansah\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Kumawood actor, Kwadwo Nkansah<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;\">\n<p id=\"article-123\">\u201cWhen I started acting in the movies, I was mocked and discouraged that I wasn\u2019t a funny comedian,\u201d says popular Kumawood actor, Kwadwo Nkansah.<\/p>\n<p>Using his life experience to motivate listeners in a one-on-one interview on Cape Coast-based Property FM, the comic actor said never allow what people say to make you lose hope.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I started acting in the movies, they said I wasn\u2019t good enough and should not be counted among funny comedians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy the time they realised, God had lifted me to be counted among the best in the movie industry, and it\u2019s all by the Grace of God.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I started acting as an old man in the movies, people thwarted my efforts and made a mockery of me that what I\u2019m doing is senseless,\u201d he said in an interview with Amansan Krakye.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut now, people really enjoy it when I play the role of an old character in movies, and that\u2019s the same thing [that happened] when I introduced dancing in movies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo everything that people want to use to discourage me from doing it, God uses that to bless me, and so never allow what people say to make you lose hope,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kumawood actor, Kwadwo Nkansah \u201cWhen I started acting in the movies, I was mocked and discouraged that I wasn\u2019t a funny comedian,\u201d says popular Kumawood actor, Kwadwo Nkansah. Using his life experience to motivate listeners in a one-on-one interview on Cape Coast-based Property FM, the comic actor said never allow what people say to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":258199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>I was mocked and discouraged for not being a funny comic actor \u2013 Kwadwo Nkansah - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/30\/i-was-mocked-and-discouraged-for-not-being-a-funny-comic-actor-kwadwo-nkansah\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"I was mocked and discouraged for not being a funny comic actor \u2013 Kwadwo Nkansah - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kumawood actor, Kwadwo Nkansah \u201cWhen I started acting in the movies, I was mocked and discouraged that I wasn\u2019t a funny comedian,\u201d says popular Kumawood actor, Kwadwo Nkansah. 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