Van Vicker has revealed some surprising details about how Lilwin and director Fiifi Garbin replaced him with Nigeria’s Ramsey Nouah in the movie A Country Called Ghana.
During an interview with journalists at Hello FM in Kumasi, Van explained that the director contacted him and presented the offer for the movie and the lead role they wanted him to play.
Van mentioned that they initially suggested a month-long filming schedule, but he declined due to being in school and unable to commit to such a lengthy period on set.
Instead, Van proposed completing his scenes in just ten days to ensure a quality outcome, but Fiifi never responded and eventually cast Ramsey Nouah and other Nigerian actors in the film.
To Van’s surprise, Ramsey also finished filming his part in just ten days, leaving him puzzled by the situation.
“As a matter of fact, Fii Frank Garbin called me and said he wants me to play the role Ramsey played in that movie. So I wanted to know when are we shooting because I was in school. He got back and said the producer says they need me for one month.
“I said one month is too much What are we filming? You should know that with actors, the more days you require, the more fees I will charge so the earlier you finish the better. So you need me for one month; are you sure you can pay me for one full month? So I told him for one month I can’t do the work because I’m in school.
“I told him what I could do was ten days, and if he could do ten days then I would do the work. Later he said the ten days won’t work. Can you believe that later I saw that Ramsey came to do the work. I was tracking the job and can you believe Ramsey used ten days to do the job?
“I didn’t say I wasn’t going to do the work at all. I gave a counter-proposal. Even if he had come to negotiate an improvement on the days he could have reached an agreement, the person they brought also did 10 days,” he said.
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