Hollywood actor, Idris Elba attends Akwasidae at Manhyia Palace

Hollywood actor, Idris Elba attends Akwasidae at Manhyia Palace

Idrissa Akuna Elba, also known as Idris Elba, a British actor of Ghanaian descent, pays a visit to The Asantehene, Otumfour Osei Tutu II, at the Manhyia Palace in the Asante Kingdom.

Elba paid respect to the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II and the Asantehemaa Nana Konadu Yiadom III on Sunday, February 5, while attending the first Akwasidae of the year 2023.

The actor recorded some of his experiences at the Akwasidae festival with the assistance of his production crew. According to rumors, the clip will be used in one of his next movies.

Every six weeks, the Akwasidae (Sacred Sunday) is observed at the Manhyia Palace in Kumasi, Ashanti Region. It starts from the Asantehene’s throne room and is accompanied by sizable audiences dressed in traditional attire like the royal kente. The ceremony is centered on ancestor worship, remembering and acknowledging former monarchs, and different honorable accomplishments.

Idris and his group visited President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo at the Golden Jubilee House in Accra on Friday, February 3. He added that “our initiative to develop film studios across Africa,” starting with Ghana and its West African neighbors, was what led to the visit.

The Hollywood superstar disclosed that while delibrating with his team, they noticed that “policy is where the actual groundwork” needs to be done to realise the dream for Africa.

Idris, 50, argued that without the right policy underpinning filmmaking in Ghana, the plan to draw investors to the West African nation will be fruitless.

“I’m led to believe that there are some plans for some other studios to be brought to Ghana which is fantastic and one should not cannibalise the other but without the policy component, I think, it’s safe to say that we can have as many studios as we want but we will not have the filmmakers attracted here,” he said.

He also highlighted a personal project he aims to bring to Ghana.

“What I want to do personally [is], I have a film that I am directing and I am hoping to bring that film or at least some of that film to shoot in Ghana. [For] that film, I would say we’d be here in December. We start pre-production in August. Some of the film, say two or three weeks, will be in Ghana, say by December,” he indicated.

He announced his intention to use his film as a pilot to make a case for the grander project of bringing state-of-the-art studios to Africa to attract the international shakers in the movie industry and hoped for “a fair wind,” and consensus regarding what “we could do in terms of the policy.”

“Needless to say, it’ll take a lot of collaboration to move quickly. However, it would be very beneficial for us to show and to make an announcement to the world that Ghana is open for business [so] here [are] the steps, the policies are in place, and we are actually bringing a film [by] one of [those of] the soil,” he touched his chest proudly, “to our country and we’re going to put our money where our mouth is.”

Idris Elba played the titular role in the 2015 movie adaptation of Uzodinma Iweala’s 2005 novel Beast of No Nation, which took its name from a Fela Kuti record of the same name. Abraham Attah, a new movie star, was born as a result of the Ghana-shot, award-winning movie.

Source: ZackGh.com

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