Considering That I'm British And I Talk

Considering That I'm British And I Talk The Way I Do, I Love It When A Director Takes A Chance On Me.

I Truly Believe That One Of The Things That Has Been Lacking In America Is A Spirit Of Repentance About The Injustices Of Slavery And The Injustices Of Segregation And Racism Generally. I Truly Believe That We Cannot Come To A Place Of Reconciliation Until There Is Individual Repentance And Corporate Repentance.

I Know For A Fact The Reason I'm An Actor Is Because One, Two, Maybe Three People When I Was Younger Saw Something That I Did, In Youth Theater Or Some Small Play Somewhere, And Said, "you're Good."

When You Reflect Upon The Significance Of Dr. King To This Nation, It's Criminal That He Hasn't Had A Feature Film That Was Centered Around Him Until Now. That, In And Of Itself, Was Emotional. But When You're Doing Scenes On The Edmund Pettus Bridge, With People Still Living In Selma And Now In Their 60s And 70s Who Had Actually Marched, Who Were There That Original Bloody Sunday, That's Humbling... That's Deeply Moving. You're No Longer Acting At That Stage, You're Just Reacting, Because It Takes The Filmmaking Process To Another Dimension.

One Of The Things I Have An Allergic Reaction To Playing, Especially As A Black Actor, Is The Mandatory Kind Of Best Friend/cop/detective Type. You Will Never See Me In That Movie.