“My Dark Skin Hindered me from Getting Movie Roles” - Mercy Johnson

In an exclusive chat with Saturday Beats of The Punch Nigeria, celebrated Nollywood 




actress Mercy Johnson revealed that some movie producers refused to give her acting 
roles due to her dark complexion.

 She said that at the start of her acting career, most movie directors and producers usually preferred to cast fair-skinned ladies at the expense of capable but dark-skinned ones. “It is very true that when I was starting out in the movie industry, it was difficult to get roles because of my complexion. I faced that a lot and I tell people that my success is just grace. Somebody once told me that I am too dark, but that is where the grace and favour of God come in. Regardless of everything, most of the dark-skinned actresses that are my contemporaries made it,” she said.