Let's get used to other cultures. Portray the world for what it is and you will find truth.

It's amazing that people still feel, 'Oh my gosh, it's a black guy.' We've been here for a long time let's get used to it. Let's get used to other cultures.

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.

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.

Id like to be in anything that tells a good story and has an interesting character.

Portray the world for what it is, and you will find truth.

Not everybody has that mentality and that's fine, but once Robert Redford leaves this earth - later rather than sooner - his legacy will go on.

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 like my women very green you know, eco-friendly.

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.

My dad is a minister, and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their first language is Yoruba, and their second language is English.

I'm a London fanatic. That's my city. I love being from there, you don't appreciate it until you go out.

Every time I go out in London, I'm not always with my guys. I have three female friends that I'll go out with all the time. I'm the only guy there.

I remember my manager telling me, 'Be myself, be humble, keep rooted, keep God first'. Those words were very helpful.

Ive had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.

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.