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I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
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Chiwetel Ejiofor
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: July 10
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Chiwetel Umeadi Ejiofor
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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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It's a strange thing, but you get this click in your brain the wonderful feeling that the entirety of a character is suddenly available and accessible to you.
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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 think fear is a very healthy motivator.
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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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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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I'm in favor of anything that promotes greener solutions.
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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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I would love to be a fly on the wall watching other directors and actors to see what their process is like.
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I think I enjoy working obviously as a lead, but also you know I feel I'm also a character actor as well, so I enjoy approaching various projects in all sort of capacities. Any film I have been able to do I feel very fortunate to have been a part of.
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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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I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed.
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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 was always lucky that I've always had a gig, I'm fortunate in that way.
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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 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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My music tastes are often 20 years behind.
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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 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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I wouldnt be the same actor if I couldnt do theater.
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