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" I'm not averse to a bit of travel. "
O. T. Fagbenle
Bit
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" We all fail, and we all have weaknesses. I think that's what helps us relate to characters we see on TV or read in books, is that we recognize our frailties within them and maybe don't feel so alone. We get to learn from their mistakes. "
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" My family are quite academic, and I was set to study economics and politics at university. "
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" As a younger man, I thought the best thing art could do was to challenge people's mindsets, and I still do, but I've come round to the value of entertainment. A show like 'The Interceptor,' which gives the audience that release, after a hard day, of just sitting down and enjoying themselves - that adds value to lives, too. "
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" We moved back to Britain for my secondary education. "
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" I think the two main tools actors have are the imagination of what other people have gone through, to connect with and through research, and there's one's own experience. "
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" As an actor, you can't play a flashback; you can't play someone's memory. You just have to play each circumstance as if it was real and understand that person's point of view. "
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" I'm interested in colour-blind hiring of directors, producers, and writers. Go to the source. Then we won't need to have conversations about colour-blind casting. "
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Interested
Go
" I think, unfortunately, we've always lived in a world of massive inequality: inequality between the haves and the have-nots, inequality between men and women that not only exists temporally but geographically as well. "
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" We have flaws, things go wrong, people's hearts get broken, people make mistakes, people fall in love with other people. And that's hard, but that's also part of life. "
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" I really want to do Broadway. "
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Broadway
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" It's funny because I was looking back on my Instagram,, and I saw that I had a bunch of feminist posts but that was all before 'Handmaid's Tale.' "
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Looking
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" Elizabeth Moss may very well be one of the best actresses I've had the privilege of standing opposite and sharing lines with. "
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Standing
Well
Best
" My whole life, I have considered myself a feminist. "
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" My family is very nomadic - my mom, in particular, traveled the world as a young person, and her father before that, and I guess I have that inside me. "
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Me
Father
" I'm interested in working with great people and exploring great themes in different mediums. "
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" I think what we forget is that everybody loses when we keep unnecessary privilege. The cost to society overall is much greater. "
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" I feel like within each of us is a million different people that we could reveal and that we can be sometimes... And for me, the process of acting isn't so much about finding the person outside of myself and mimicking them but, rather, releasing parts of myself and adding them to the character. "
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People
Process
" I try to encourage myself to act in a way that supports gender equality, and I call that feminist. Whatever word people want to use to call that, I'm not really attached to a label. "
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People
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" The older I get, the more I dance like my dad, and I'm finding that suddenly cardigans are becoming more attractive to me. "
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" I loved doing my own stunts, and so, as much as the insurance people would allow me, I would get involved. "
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" Words can be an act of reductionism. "
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" Love is a hard thing to turn your back on. "
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" Oakland's got a lot of character. "
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" When representation of the LBGT community was much more scarce in the media, I think there was some kind of pressure to encapsulate an entire community in a single character - this can often be a fast track to generalization and stereotypes. "
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" It's hard for men sometimes to talk about feminism, just as it's hard for people who aren't from ethnic minorities to talk about racial prejudice. It's a difficult conversation to have, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't have it. "
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" I think you can judge a man by the size of what offends him. "
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Judge
" Television is obviously changing; the way we consume media is changing, so I think it's natural that we are going to try different styles. "
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" I've always had an explorative drive to my art, as opposed to wanting to achieve some certain goal. "
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" I came to the States less to find fortune and fame and more to kind of have a life experience of seeing something new. "
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