Ras Nene has claimed that Ghanaian directors always wanted him to play the bad guy role.

According to him, they never gave him the chance to explore his own diversity as an actor.

“So basically, movie lovers only knew me for the criminal roles I played in movies and not my diversity”.

"with the criminal roles I play, there was this guy who also did equally well when it came to such roles but he was never given the role. The directors always gave me hardcore criminal roles because I was popular for playing such roles”.

This, is explained to DJ on Y 102.5 FM’s Ryse N Shyne show, is the reason he started his YouTube channel after the pandemic hit Ghana.

"with the movies, the director chooses where to place you, whether or not you can play the role. But with the YouTube channel, it belongs to me so I am free to do anything I want to and also express myself”.

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“I respect them a lot and I truly appreciate them. But they should sometimes give us the opportunity to play some roles we feel comfortable with. It should not always be what they want us to do,” he said.

Ras Nene who used to keep his hair in dreadlocks and was known for playing the most notorious and gangster roles in movies revealed that some Rastafarians at a point in time got angry with him for playing such roles.

He was creating a stereotype about Rastafarians being gangsters which they were not happy about.

“I had to take my time to explain to them that in the movies, the storyline is usually of an event that has happened in real life which we act out to advice the public."

"Even with that, they did not understand because they felt that children seeing me play those roles every time will make them think that any Rastafarian is wicked which is not true,” he said.