Hi Boris! Boris Kodjoe covers the New Issue of Upscale Magazine
The new issue of Upscale Magazine features German-Ghanaian actor Boris
Kodjoe on the cover. Boris who grew up in Germany talks about the
hurdles he overcame, learning English and entering the American
entertainment industry.
“If I started worrying about how
people perceive me, I would be mad about people not realizing that I
couldn’t even speak English when I first came here. People always give
so much props to English actors that do an American accent convincingly.
I had to learn how to walk and talk and move around so I could be
accepted as somebody who plays African-American roles. There’s not one
other German actor who has established himself as playing American
characters. I’m proud of that. I use it
as encouragement to myself that I
don’t have to put limitations on where I wanna go.”
