The only way you can influence your fate is to put your soul into your performance and hope it registers with the audience.
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJEI thought it was an interesting take on such a big-budget cult classic
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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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You don’t want it to be a replica or an imitation.
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You had that in the Carpenter version, and you have that in this prequel.
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Those films that really speak to the primal fear that we, as human beings, have about the unknown have always intrigued me.
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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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I just want to keep the diversity and the options open. In terms of what I’m looking for,
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I made a concerted effort, last year and this year, to get a range of characters
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It’s very important to stretch, because while it’s good to look pumped
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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 knew him as a commercial director and thought one of his commercials was great.
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It’s paying homage, very much, to that.
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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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I just said, “This is something to get on board with.”
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Because I play the trumpet and sing. I’d like to incorporate that into a character.
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Whilst I’m still young and I still have the looks
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