It has been a long while since a show has affected me like this, and goodness, what a ride it was.
So I was completely unaware that I would inhale this show in the space of a week and everything about it. I had heard vague mentions that it was pretty good, and I knew it was post-apocalyptic, but not much more than that. The fact is there are about 15 to 20 per cent of people living with disability in the world so why shouldn’t I be seen on the screen or on stage?” he added.I came into Station Eleven not knowing anything really about what I was getting myself into. “And then I started to question: ‘well, why not, right?’ It’s also then to challenge people as well as to what they see and what they’re used to. Do I want to be seen like this? Do I want to put myself out there in this new body?’” Amponsah said. I definitely had moments of ‘oh geez, I don’t know if this is for me anymore. “I do have to say (acting) wasn’t in my mind all the time during recovery. W., Amponsah endured two years of rehabilitation along with a lot of soul-searching. “Of course I had my parents saying, ‘do you have any backup plans?’ It’s been my road ever since,” he said.Īfter the fire in 2012 at his walk-up apartment on Queen St. After performing in high school productions, he pursued acting at the George Brown Theatre School. In the fall, he’ll play Creon in a Winnipeg production of Greek tragedy Antigone.Īrriving from Ghana with his family as an infant, Amponsah grew up in Mississauga after a short stay in Montreal. Since his recovery, Amponsah has landed roles in Killjoys and The Handmaid’s Tale as well as theatre and is collaborating with long-time friend Viktor Lukawski as part of a two-year residency at the Theatre Centre on Queen St. Patrick Somerville had a lot of conversations with me just to bring a little more authenticity to the character,” Amponsah said.
“In the book, (August) is not a person with a disability so a lot of things were tweaked. Some changes have made in the adaptation from book to television, including Amponsah’s role with the collaboration of writer/producer Patrick Somerville, who adapted the novel. It’s more than just a pandemic story in my opinion,” Amponsah said. I thought that would be a neat challenge. “I just loved his relationship with the main character, Kirsten (played by Mackenzie Davis) as long-time friends as well as the fact that it was about a pandemic within a pandemic, life imitating art imitating life. August tries to find the positive and holds the group together in a lot of ways,” Amponsah said. The Travelling Symphony, which he’s a member of, comes across a lot of experiences, a lot of difficult times as well as good times. “I really enjoyed the character of August. He’s also a confidant to Kirsten, who was a child when the plague first arrived. He actor plays August, a member of the Travelling Symphony, which brings the joy of stage performance to a world bereft of culture. (The show has an enviable 98 per cent critics rating and 73 per cent audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.)
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John Mandel, the series is centred in a world decimated by a swine flu pandemic, with a storyline shifting between past and future.
Adapted from the award-winning novel by Canadian author Emily St. But he hasn’t lost his love of acting as he forges ahead with his career.Īmponsah, 36, relishes his latest role on the HBO Max limited series Station Eleven, which premiered in December. Prince Amponsah was badly scarred and lost both hands in a devastating house fire a decade ago.
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