Music has become a bigger business, and with that there is more pressure to succeed; I think that it creates a negative pressure for being creative.
Let's get used to other cultures. Portray the world for what it is and you will find truth.
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.
I'm giving good advice everyday however I can help. People will hit me up and ask me all types of questions. I really don't know too much except what I've gone through, but whatever knowledge I have, I try and give.
Stay away from girls who cry a lot or who look like they get pregnant easily or have careers.
In this speedy world of ours when facts are multiplying rapidly and giant rearrangements are happening all around us, it seems dangerous to be made nervous by the new - to want what we can never have, to want things not to be rearranged. It would be better to be able to take the leap, which is to be able not only to live with change and newness, but even to help make it.
I don't work at night. I'm not very good about working at night. I get tired during the day and I usually like to save my nights to try things out recording.