Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJEIt has a very mystic energy which informs you as an actor.
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Personally, I love Toronto.
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I made a concerted effort, last year and this year, to get a range of characters
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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’ve never been really great at trusting anybody, just because of the way I grew up.
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I like the fact that there was a European, first-time director. I’d known of him because I’m from Europe.
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There’s always your initial trepidation about doing a remake, but that was alleviated by the fact that it was a prequel.
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It was a real character piece.
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I knew him as a commercial director and thought one of his commercials was great.
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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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. You have to make sure you don’t hurt or hit someone. And hit the beats, because they have five cameras
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I thrive on that; I rise to the occasion of the circumstances.
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You had that in the Carpenter version, and you have that in this prequel.
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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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Immediately, that gives you creative license to really recreate and explore and put a new stamp on the genre.
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You really have to act your pants off to stay alive.
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. It has to look real. That in itself becomes challenging because you have to learn it straight away.
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Trust in your abilities and you’re the author of your own destiny.
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I remember in the Carpenter version, you got acquainted with the characters and really knew them..
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When a child wants to be accepted, he’ll do anything.
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Well, filming in Hawaii, you know, is a blessing.
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He’s got to have a bit of an edge, but that would be nice.
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Nuoye is a brave man of chieftaincy and Agbaje means wealth and prosperity.
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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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It just increases your possibilities of work because, if people know you can do just about anything
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Wale means to arrive home. So the crown has arrived home.
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I’ve played different nationalities, and everything from vulnerable to strong to crooked to demented.
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