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" I've always had an explorative drive to my art, as opposed to wanting to achieve some certain goal. "
O. T. Fagbenle
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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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" 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 loved doing my own stunts, and so, as much as the insurance people would allow me, I would get involved. "
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" I think what often happens when people leave their spouse for someone else is they tend to go for the opposite of what they already have. "
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" Reed Morano is an amazing woman and one of the most extraordinary people I've had the chance to work with. "
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" I'm hungry as an artist to find opportunities to contribute to the world in a more meaningful way than just numbing people through entertainment. "
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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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" Oakland's got a lot of character. "
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" There are certain directors who just don't cast diversely in prominent roles. Ever. Often it's just because they don't have a diverse social circle, so they don't think of black or brown people as husbands, best friends, bosses. "
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" We moved back to Britain for my secondary education. "
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" 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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" There's been such a pushback against political correctness, and I think that's due to the discomfort people feel talking about other people's issues that they don't fully understand. "
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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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" Love is a hard thing to turn your back on. "
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" I think when YouTube first came out, everyone was thinking people were just going to watch five-minute shows from now on and that people didn't have the patience anymore to watch longer programmes. But instead, everyone is binge watching and consuming ten-hour programmes and box sets of shows, so it is really interesting. "
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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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" I'm interested in working with great people and exploring great themes in different mediums. "
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" 'The Interceptor' has an excitement and grittiness to it, but it's also very entertaining. It lives in this sphere of a slightly heightened reality where, although you completely identify and recognise all the characters in it, they're fun and exciting to watch. "
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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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" We've seen from shows like 'Game of Thrones' that the book can become a seed, which you plant in the ground of great TV creators, and it can sprout out into a big tree. "
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" My full name is Olatunde Olateju Olaolorun Fagbenle. I was named after my grandfather. It's Yoruba, which is, like, southern Nigeria. "
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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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" My family are quite academic, and I was set to study economics and politics at university. "
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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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" 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 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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" 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 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'm not averse to a bit of travel. "
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