black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

I’ve played different nationalities, and everything from vulnerable to strong to crooked to demented.
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE

Anand Thakur
Also, I’d like to play an athlete again, while I’m still physically fit, or a musician, like Nat King Cole
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE

Anand Thakur
It’s paying homage, very much, to that.
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE

Anand Thakur
And then, with a European director and Norwegian actors speaking in Norwegian, it was going to be very interesting.
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE

Anand Thakur
The house was run by my mother, and because there were 10 or so kids, there was no time for individual attention.
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE

Anand Thakur
Wale means to arrive home. So the crown has arrived home.
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE

Anand Thakur
It’s a good way of getting you into the zone for the scene.
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE

Anand Thakur
I like the fact that there was a European, first-time director. I’d known of him because I’m from Europe.
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE

Anand Thakur
And if it means you’re getting a certain amount of notoriety from a fight, that’s what you’ll do.
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE

Certain Fight Getting Mean Notoriety
I knew him as a commercial director and thought one of his commercials was great.
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE

Anand Thakur
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

Anand Thakur
There’s always your initial trepidation about doing a remake, but that was alleviated by the fact that it was a prequel.
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE

Anand Thakur
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-AGBAJE

Fate Hope Influence Performance Soul Way
Those films that really speak to the primal fear that we, as human beings, have about the unknown have always intrigued me.
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE

Anand Thakur
He’s got to have a bit of an edge, but that would be nice.
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE

Anand Thakur
Each actor was serviced in the movie, and we tried to do that in this movie as well.
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE

Anand Thakur