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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.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
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Chiwetel Ejiofor
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: July 10
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I fell in love with film. I didn't start out to be a film actor. I wanted to be a theater actor.
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Ive always liked the idea of being a father. And Ive always romanticised it, because I lost my father when I was young. In a way, all of the complications that come with my career are about that.
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Ive just tried to keep my eyes open, tried to read everything you can, and tried to see whether I see myself within it. If I do, then I can get excited about it.
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I think fear is a very healthy motivator.
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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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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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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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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'm constantly discovering things. Like Bobby Bland. Right now I suppose I'm into the Eighties, which turned out to be a great musical period.
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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 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 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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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'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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My music tastes are often 20 years behind.
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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 enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer.
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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 am aware that I have been incredibly fortunate in my life to work with the people that I have worked with and pursue the projects that I have been able to do. There are so many films that I have done that I really, as a film person, as a film fan, that I like. And that is a nice place to think of a career in.
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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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