As an actor, you really want to resonate with your audience.
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJEImmediately, that gives you creative license to really recreate and explore and put a new stamp on the genre.
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Then you’re going to get more offers. That’s what I want to do.
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He’s got to have a bit of an edge, but that would be nice.
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I think always as an actor. I go in knowing how I’m going to play it. That’s about it.
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I just want to keep the diversity and the options open. In terms of what I’m looking for,
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My father was a lorry driver, very rarely at home.
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Certainly, I look for different characters ’cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I also don’t like to get typecast.
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Also, I’d like to play an athlete again, while I’m still physically fit, or a musician, like Nat King Cole
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I’m known for playing bad guys, so this was an interesting departure from what I’m known to play, which is a softer, more likable, affable character.
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It just increases your possibilities of work because, if people know you can do just about anything
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You had that in the Carpenter version, and you have that in this prequel.
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It’s a significant question: should black people only adopt black children, and white people white children?
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It seemed like a different story, with the horror elements.
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It has a very mystic energy which informs you as an actor.
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And then, with a European director and Norwegian actors speaking in Norwegian, it was going to be very interesting.
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I made a concerted effort, last year and this year, to get a range of characters
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