You want to create something fresh, original, very unique.
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE. 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 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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You don’t want to drain yourself. But it pumps you up, gets you in the zone.
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It’s paying homage, very much, to that.
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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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Each actor was serviced in the movie, and we tried to do that in this movie as well.
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What is a shame is that there isn’t stuff that is as great as ‘Oz’ on a consistent level around today.
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Nuoye is a brave man of chieftaincy and Agbaje means wealth and prosperity.
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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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It just increases your possibilities of work because, if people know you can do just about anything
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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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That’s the really scary thing, not the slasher, macabre movies.
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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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My father was a lorry driver, very rarely at home.
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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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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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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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I want to take the helm and be a renegade cop, or something like that.
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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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The axe is fifteen pounds
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Personally, I love Toronto.
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Akin is warrior or brave man
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So, whatever initial trepidation or fear I may have had was alleviated by those factors.
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It was about survival. It was about where the next meal was coming from.
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I’ve played different nationalities, and everything from vulnerable to strong to crooked to demented.
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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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It has a very mystic energy which informs you as an actor.
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