Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.
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Anand Thakur
Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE
What is a shame is that there isn’t stuff that is as great as ‘Oz’ on a consistent level around today.
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE
He’s got to have a bit of an edge, but that would be nice.
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE
I’ve played different nationalities, and everything from vulnerable to strong to crooked to demented.
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE
Certainly, I look for different characters ’cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I also don’t like to get typecast.
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE
Immediately, that gives you creative license to really recreate and explore and put a new stamp on the genre.
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE
Nuoye is a brave man of chieftaincy and Agbaje means wealth and prosperity.
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE
I played a character on Oz and people still approach me in the streets today.
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE
Akin is warrior or brave man
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE
I’d like to do a lead action role.
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE
It was about survival. It was about where the next meal was coming from.
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE
So, whatever initial trepidation or fear I may have had was alleviated by those factors.
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE
I just said, “This is something to get on board with.”
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE
So you really, really have to stay supple.
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE
It just increases your possibilities of work because, if people know you can do just about anything
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE
Because I play the trumpet and sing. I’d like to incorporate that into a character.
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE