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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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" I think what we forget is that everybody loses when we keep unnecessary privilege. The cost to society overall is much greater. "

O. T. Fagbenle

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Think

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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. "

" Words can be an act of reductionism. "

O. T. Fagbenle

Act

Words

" I really want to do Broadway. "

" I'm interested in working with great people and exploring great themes in different mediums. "

" Love is a hard thing to turn your back on. "

" We moved back to Britain for my secondary education. "

" As a man, having a conversation about feminism can be tricky - the best I can do is to have assumptions and ask questions. You always run the risk of putting your foot in it. "

" 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. "

" My full name is Olatunde Olateju Olaolorun Fagbenle. I was named after my grandfather. It's Yoruba, which is, like, southern Nigeria. "

O. T. Fagbenle

Grandfather

Name

" 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. "

" I'm not averse to a bit of travel. "

" I came to the States less to find fortune and fame and more to kind of have a life experience of seeing something new. "

" The older I get, the more I dance like my dad, and I'm finding that suddenly cardigans are becoming more attractive to me. "

O. T. Fagbenle

Older

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Reed Morano is an amazing woman and one of the most extraordinary people I've had the chance to work with. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My family are quite academic, and I was set to study economics and politics at university. "

" I've always had an explorative drive to my art, as opposed to wanting to achieve some certain goal. "

" 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. "

O. T. Fagbenle

Mom

Father

" 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. "

" My whole life, I have considered myself a feminist. "

" Oakland's got a lot of character. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "