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I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

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Chiwetel Ejiofor
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: July 10
Actor
Director
Film Actor
Film Director
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Chiwetel Umeadi Ejiofor
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My favorite thing to cook is anything that comes out okay. I'm very fond of certain pastas and sauces that I can just about cook from scratch. So those are what I like to cook, as well as roasted potatoes and chicken. Anything that tastes alright.
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That global poverty would end. That people would be able to eat. It's the worst shame in the world that people go hungry.
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Depending on what your interest in theater is, I always recommend working on plays. It's a great way to be introduced to the field, and also a great way to be seen by agents and representation. I'm also a great advocate for studying acting at a drama school or a college.
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I started working as an actor, semi-professionally, when I was 16, and got my first professional gig at 19. I guess I've kind of worked pretty consistently since then.
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Dividing everybody into genders and sexuality and races and religions, and I think its important to have films out there, to have discussions out there which really try to get to grips with where that kind of thing can lead.
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I have always been very fortunate in my working life in terms of the, I say that like I've not been fortunate at all in my private life.
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I think Africa will have a crisper impact on Europe, as it has traditionally, and then that will filter into the American cultural psyche, in the way that India has.
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Working in this industry, I do feel that science and creativity turned out to be a very useful combination for me.
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I'm constantly looking to see whether I look the same as I did earlier, whether I've put on or lost any weight.
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I remember being very affected by what was going on there towards the end of Apartheid. And the subject is still very pertinent, politically, to what's happening around the world today, in terms of negotiating peace talks. I had always been interested in this period of change in South Africa, generally, for a variety of reasons.
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I think fear is a very healthy motivator.
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I was always lucky that I've always had a gig, I'm fortunate in that way.
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I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I did study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. For me that was a good way to enter the field, to work in the theater.
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Certainly what constitutes a stage actor, what constitutes a film actor, I don't even know what that is. And both things are very accurate, in a sense. In terms of people's needs to concentrate on race, I wonder if it's completely necessary, but it's not something that is so dynamically relevant to me that I feel it should be one thing or another.
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My music tastes are often 20 years behind.
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I feel that audiences are very sophisticated, and part of my challenge is to keep them engaged because they are so complex.
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I've always enjoyed doing a huge variety of roles, which I think helps, instead of settling for the things I might be most comfortable with.
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Reporters tend to launch on what seems to be the clearest, most stark aspects of someone's life in terms of an interview.
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I don't ever feel like I've had a moment where I am like, There it is perfect and holy in all ways.
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The thing about film is it is a very precise form. You know if you have it and you know if you don't have it. There's not really a middle bit where you're like, I think we kind of have that scene.
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