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I'm known for playing bad guys, so this was an interesting departure from what I'm known to play, which is a softer, more likable, affable character.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
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Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 22
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Wale means to arrive home. So the crown has arrived home. Akin is warrior or brave man. Nuoye is a brave man of chieftaincy and Agbaje means wealth and prosperity.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
I just want to keep the diversity and the options open. In terms of what I'm looking for, I'd like to do a lead action role. Whilst I'm still young and I still have the looks, I want to take the helm and be a renegade cop, or something like that. He's got to have a bit of an edge, but that would be nice.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
The only way you can influence your fate is to put your soul into your performance and hope it registers with the audience.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
There's always your initial trepidation about doing a remake, but that was alleviated by the fact that it was a prequel. Immediately, that gives you creative license to really recreate and explore and put a new stamp on the genre.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Also, I'd like to play an athlete again, while I'm still physically fit, or a musician, like Nat King Cole, because I play the trumpet and sing. I'd like to incorporate that into a character.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Personally, I love Toronto.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Certainly, I look for different characters 'cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I also don't like to get typecast. I made a concerted effort, last year and this year, to get a range of characters, just to show people the range that I have, and for them to be able to see the artistry beyond the color.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
It's the ones that deal with the inner fear, the unknown realms and the mysticisms that are scary. You had that in the Carpenter version, and you have that in this prequel. It's paying homage, very much, to that.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
You really have to act your pants off to stay alive. I thrive on that I rise to the occasion of the circumstances.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
I think always as an actor. I go in knowing how I'm going to play it. That's about it.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
What I like about the Carpenter take on The Thing is the fact that it just has so much suspense. It seemed like a different story, with the horror elements. Those films that really speak to the primal fear that we, as human beings, have about the unknown have always intrigued me. That's the really scary thing, not the slasher, macabre movies.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
What is a shame is that there isn't stuff that is as great as 'Oz' on a consistent level around today.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
It's a significant question: should black people only adopt black children, and white people white children?
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Well, filming in Hawaii, you know, is a blessing. It's one of the most beautiful places on this planet. It has a very mystic energy which informs you as an actor.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
It's very important to stretch, because while it's good to look pumped, a lot of the moves are split legs, and twisting fast. So you really, really have to stay supple.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
The actual fights themselves are very demanding. You don't want to drain yourself. But it pumps you up, gets you in the zone. It's a good way of getting you into the zone for the scene.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Certainly, I look for different characters 'cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I also don't like to get typecast.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
The axe is fifteen pounds. You have to make sure you don't hurt or hit someone. And hit the beats, because they have five cameras. It has to look real. That in itself becomes challenging because you have to learn it straight away.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
I just want to keep the diversity and the options open. In terms of what I'm looking for, I'd like to do a lead action role.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
The only way I know how to deliver is to focus some people can turn it on or off - I'd rather stay in character.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
