When you take a lot of stick you want to ram it down people's throats.
Id like to be in anything that tells a good story and has an interesting character.
We've grown up with American movies. Not to say that American movies - or movies that have been based in Watts, Compton, or Inglewood - are a 100% true depiction of that world. But also you have inner-city London, and the foundations are pretty much the same. Especially me, growing up in Southeast London, in Peckham.
You take your audience through such a story where they have to invest their energy and emotion, and to slap them in the face with, "Well, this is how life is. Bye," wouldn't have been as great as the ending that we have, which is optimistic and hopeful. It's not happy 100%, but it does make you feel like, "This kid may just be okay. "
You could easily play the guy as straight-up hood throughout the whole movie, the Imperial Courts, but writer and director Malik Vitthal envisioned a human being that has never been seen before in film: a black man in circumstances that he does not like, who is passionate - persistent - in turning it around.
I love London. I'm a London fanatic. That's my city. I love being from there, you don't appreciate it until you go out.
I love theatre. I think it's the home of most actors. . . most actors start with it. It's so enjoyable to do and to be able to see your audience. And the process of theatre is great.
Women must destroy in themselves, the desire to be loved-
You train, you fight, you show respect at the end of it.
[John] McCain has never ripped into [Barack] Obama the way he rips into [Donald] Trump or other Republicans.
I speak a lot about what I call "the trance of unworthiness" which is really epidemic in our culture, this sense of "I'm not enough," or "something's wrong with me. " Most of us have some level of it because our culture has all these standards (handed down through our families) of what it means to be okay.