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" Acting careers don't come out fully formed - not unless your name is Jaden Smith and your dad has done it all. "
Name
Out
Acting
" 'Attack The Block' is an alien invasion film set in South London. It's about a group of kids who are some petty thugs, who have to find the hero in themselves, when they attack. "
Find
Alien
Petty
" Being robbed hurts - not physically, but from what it does to your pride. "
Robbed
Being
Does
" Film is just a great medium to express yourself and a great environment to work around. "
Great
Film
Environment
" Finn is just a stormtrooper, and stormtroopers are no longer clones, so they are bred from birth to fight. He's not too sure about it, so he escapes and meets Rey and Poe and BB8, and their stories kind of mesh together, and they go on a major adventure. "
Together
Adventure
Fight
" I'd like to be in anything that tells a good story and has an interesting character. "
Interesting
Good
Character
" I like my women very green; you know, eco-friendly. "
Very
You
Green
" I love London. I'm a London fanatic. That's my city. "
Love
City
Fanatic
" In the States, you have a little bit of freedom to audition for different kinds of roles. "
Different
Kinds
Little
" In this life, it's not hard to do wrong. "
Life
Wrong
Hard
" I remember my manager telling me, 'Be myself, be humble, keep rooted, keep God first'. Those words were very helpful. "
Humble
Words
Remember
" I think for me, wearing the helmet and being part of the Stormtroopers felt so strange. Like, so this is what it feels like to just be one of the many. And to look the same, and to have to do the same thing. To be under the same orders. This is what it feels like. "
Think
Helmet
Like
" 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. "
People
Time
Long
" I've been getting diverse roles. "
Roles
Been
Getting
" I've had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting. "
Theatre
About
Acting
" My biggest challenge is to not do urban movies for the rest of my life, those alpha hoodies. "
Movies
My Life
Challenge
" 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. "
Second
English
First
" My dad's a Pentecostal minister, meaning that he's full of charisma. If he's telling a story about Noah's ark, you best know each tiger is going to be having their own little conversation and narrative. "
Story
Conversation
Tiger
" Normally you hear about Southeast London, and you hear about all the stuff that goes on down there, all the negative things, and the tabloids kind of stay away from all the positive things that happen that I see every day, which kind of outshines the negative. "
You
Positive
Negative
" Portray the world for what it is, and you will find truth. "
You
World
Will
" Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, when you're dealing with reality, I feel like films should discover the part that is happy. "
Feel
You
End
" There is a level of appreciation for brothers and sisters in the hood. "
Level
Appreciation
Brothers
" There's a difference between living somewhere and being part of somewhere. "
Being
Living
Difference
" The scripts that I've been getting are of epic proportion. People want me to lead the big armies. "
Want
Big
Epic
" Who wouldn't want to be in 'Star Wars?' It'd be great. "
Star Wars
Who
Wars
" You know, we all can do bad, and we all can do good. "
You
Know
Good
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