. It has to look real. That in itself becomes challenging because you have to learn it straight away.
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJEThat’s the really scary thing, not the slasher, macabre movies.
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Trust in your abilities and you’re the author of your own destiny.
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I made a concerted effort, last year and this year, to get a range of characters
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Nuoye is a brave man of chieftaincy and Agbaje means wealth and prosperity.
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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 played a character on Oz and people still approach me in the streets today.
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It has a very mystic energy which informs you as an actor.
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You want to create something fresh, original, very unique.
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I’ve never been really great at trusting anybody, just because of the way I grew up.
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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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It was about survival. It was about where the next meal was coming from.
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Immediately, that gives you creative license to really recreate and explore and put a new stamp on the genre.
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The only way I know how to deliver is to focus; some people can turn it on or off – I’d rather stay in character.
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I thrive on that; I rise to the occasion of the circumstances.
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And if it means you’re getting a certain amount of notoriety from a fight, that’s what you’ll do.
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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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