Poko
Poko as she is popularly called in the Sierra Leonean movie community, found time out of her busy schedule to grant this exclusive interview to the Editor of the Natifz Times Newspaper, Nenpan Ngwan 1. Can you briefly tell us about yourself? My name is Thelma T. Barnett (Poko). I am a sierra leonean. I live in Freetown and a Christian. I am an actress and my mum's only child. 2. How Long have you been in the movie industry? I have been in the industry since 2006 3. What motivated you to go into acting instead of sticking to modeling ? Well it came at a time in my life when I noticed that people were using my fame to organize beauty pageants (I mean the organizers). They will get me to partake in pageants not knowing that the winners were already arranged and at the end of the day it was doing me more harm than good so I decided to try acting. 4. How did you start your movie career? When I was into modeling and pageant I had friends in t...