“I thought it was an interesting take on such a big-budget cult classic”

I thrive on that; I rise to the occasion of the circumstances.

You don’t want to drain yourself. But it pumps you up, gets you in the zone.

I played a character on Oz and people still approach me in the streets today.

Wale means to arrive home. So the crown has arrived home.

Certainly, I look for different characters ’cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I also don’t like to get typecast.

It’s paying homage, very much, to that.

So you really, really have to stay supple.

I like the fact that there was a European, first-time director. I’d known of him because I’m from Europe.

He’s got to have a bit of an edge, but that would be nice.

Also, I’d like to play an athlete again, while I’m still physically fit, or a musician, like Nat King Cole

I just want to keep the diversity and the options open.

Each actor was serviced in the movie, and we tried to do that in this movie as well.

It just increases your possibilities of work because, if people know you can do just about anything

It was a real character piece.

I just said, “This is something to get on board with.”

Nuoye is a brave man of chieftaincy and Agbaje means wealth and prosperity.

Humans’ convenience, of course! Individuals of the species are snatched from their homes/family/habitat/held in captivity/forced to mate at great physical/ spiritual pain.

Auditioning is extremely bizarre.

There are many wild beasts on land and in the sea, but the beastliest of all is woman.

All animals go through interminable hard labor to produce what humans shamelessly rob from them at great physical/mental pain to them and to their young.

I really like being thrown into the works. Many actors, I have found, have this as a common trait.

Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.

Your name hangs in my heart like a bell’s tongue.

In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.