I Still See Myself As An Upcoming Actress - Lydia Forson

Outspoken Ghanaian actress and social activist, Lydia Forson has stated that she doesn’t consider herself as a top actress.

The Ghanaian actress, writer, and producer, in 2010 won the African Movie Academy Award for Best Actress in a leading role.

The outspoken actress while on Citi TV to mark the day astonishingly postulated that even though she has been in the movie industry for close to two decades she said, “I feel like I am not there yet…I feel like an upcoming actress…The years still don’t add up to me”.

Talking about some of the challenges she encountered on her journey to stardom, the top-levelled actress said: “I always say I am privileged, I am coming from a home where I have amazing support—As the youngest girl in my family… my cousins, most of them are male, so I really entered the industry from a place of privilege in how I saw myself

She emphasised that she never for once saw herself different from other people “because with my brothers – I knew they were men, I knew they were different, but I also knew we were equal and I think that people confuse the fight for equality—they feel you want to be a man; no, I just want to be treated with the same respect.”

She has also starred in other conventional movies such as ‘A letter from Adam’, SideChick Gang, Phone Swap, Scorned, A Sting in a Tale’ and Borga.