Beautiful Ghanaian actress and philanthropist, Emelia Brobbey has for the first time disclosed her greatest risk in life was sticking to acting and temporarily laying down her tools as a trained teacher.
Emelia Brobbey who until her debut as an actress in 2001 worked as a professionally trained teacher in an interview with NY DJ on Homestretch Bumper to Bumper on Kapital Radio explained her passion for acting took her away from the classroom although she believed she was till in the teaching profession as a lot of people picked up lessons from her movies.
” I taught for 3 years and later had the opportunity to act which I took. It was a risk though because 13 years ago, the Ghanaian Movie Industry was not rich as it is now; rich as in Ghanaians loving and buying our own movies, we didn’t have more producers investing in it and actors did not earn much as we do now”
Asked whether was she intended going back to the classroom especially when Ghanaian teachers were enjoying the single spine salary scheme, Emelia in a jovial manner disclosed her motivation had never been money but the loved to impact positively on the younger generation.
Furthering her conversation on teaching, Emelia Brobbey disclosed she could move back to the classroom just when the moment was right.
