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-AGBAJEThen you’re going to get more offers. That’s what I want to do.
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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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I’m of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe.
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In terms of what I’m looking for, I’d like to do a lead action role.
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The house was run by my mother, and because there were 10 or so kids, there was no time for individual attention.
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Nuoye is a brave man of chieftaincy and Agbaje means wealth and prosperity.
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Well, filming in Hawaii, you know, is a blessing.
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It’s paying homage, very much, to that.
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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 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’s a good way of getting you into the zone for the scene.
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That’s the really scary thing, not the slasher, macabre movies.
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My father was a lorry driver, very rarely at home.
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You want to create something fresh, original, very unique.
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Each actor was serviced in the movie, and we tried to do that in this movie as well.
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As an actor, you really want to resonate with your audience.
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I thrive on that; I rise to the occasion of the circumstances.
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I just said, “This is something to get on board with.”
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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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It’s one of the most beautiful places on this planet.
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It has a very mystic energy which informs you as an actor.
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You don’t want it to be a replica or an imitation.
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Akin is warrior or brave man
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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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It’s the ones that deal with the inner fear, the unknown realms and the mysticisms that are scary.
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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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