Fella Makafui recently revealed that she initially turned down the role of Serwaa in the popular ‘YOLO’ series. During an interview on The Afternoon Show, she mentioned that after auditioning for a role in YOLO, she declined when the director, Ivan Quashigah, offered her the role.
see! Fella Makafui wanted to play the role of Emily, Cyril’s girlfriend, in the YOLO series. Before her acting career, she used to sell bread for her mother, and she didn’t want to portray a similar role as Serwaa in the series.
“I actually declined taking the role Serwaa, I told him [Ivan Quashigah] that I won’t do YOLO. Even with the auditions, I told him I won’t do it because I believed so much in myself that back then I did not know that as an actor, I have to go through that process.
“When we were doing the auditions, I was catching one role – I wanted to play the role of Emily but I was told to act as Serwaa and I didn’t want because I was selling bread for my mother even before coming to Accra, so why would I be doing the same in movie,” she said on TV3’s The Afternoon Show.
