Full-Time Acting Is Not Helpful – Yvonne Okoro

It’s obvious that talent alone cannot sustain one to the fullest these days.

Many musicians have already made this known and have ventured into other business avenues.

The situation in the music industry, seems not to be too far and different from that of the movies industry.

Almost the long-serving artistes and actors are now adding another source of income to that of their talent.

Actress cum producer, Yvonne Okoro seems to agree with the fact that, talent alone is no longer paying.

According to the actress, taking acting as full-time job is not advisable because the movie industry is gradually collapsing.

She told Abeiku Santana on the ‘Atuu’s Show’ aired on UTV, that currently the movie sector is faced with unsolved challenges for so long as compared to before.

“The movie industry now does not have enough producers and finance. It’s all because there’s no money in the industry lately. The actors and actresses have now turned into producers, which shouldn’t be so.”

She added that, it will not be advisable for up and coming actors and actresses to take film making as their full-time jobs.

“There should be something aside acting you can perfect at. Acting does not fetch money in Ghana right now. Compared to Nigeria where they have over 20 cinemas and a larger population as well, a good movie can sell in all cinemas and make huge sums of money, it is not so in Ghana. I’d advise these up and coming actors to go to school, get a constant paying job and maybe do acting for the passion of it.” She said.

Yvonne Okoro however revealed that, she has another source of income apart from acting and producing.

She explained that, she is a real estate developer, a job she learned from her father.

Aside that, she is also a law student at MountCrest University College