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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's vital to have something outside your acting to keep you rooted in the real world, and help you fill the vacuum. If you have nothing else, it can be unhealthy. For me being a Christian has been invaluable: it simply means acting isn't the centre of my life.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the skills you have to master in theater is the ability to make the audience believe that things that aren't there are there - just like when you're acting against CGI. Also, in a theater, the people in the back row can't see the whites of your eyes. Or your lips moving as you deliver dialogue.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I turned down a lot of easier opportunities in order to go for the things that I really and ultimately wanted to do. And what's really nice is that it's starting to work. I've been an actor for coming up on 14 years now and the level of activity that's taking place now is a culmination of a slow cooker approach to as opposed to a microwave.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
We start 'The Butler' in June and that's incredibly exciting for me because I get to work with the amazing Forest Whitaker again. It's a phenomenal script and a great, great role - I play his son. Oprah Winfrey is his wife and my mother. My character is a radical civil rights activist.
- Bid
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love tennis, love it!
- Love Is
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is sacrifice.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to think of myself as a physical actor.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love that as a black person I've experienced not being a minority. I think that's helped me to combat the minority mentality people can have here, which can stop them scaling the heights.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know I had my equivalents in Adrian Lester and Lenny James when I was at drama school. I remember David Harewood doing 'Othello' at the National, and Adrian Lester having done Cheek by Jowl's famous 'As You Like It and Company' at the Donmar. Not necessarily performances I saw, but just the fact they happened was massively encouraging.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from which we are living the legacy and which just don't get made.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Considering that I'm British and I talk the way I do, I love it when a director takes a chance on me.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are many, many communities, many ethnic minorities, many civilizations that have been brutalised by others and you have to move on. You cannot perpetually stay in that place of blame, otherwise it's just a downward spiral.
- Television
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- Nov 07, 2020