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Multifaceted and textured characters are always more intriguing to me. You never really just want to play one note. It becomes a bit monotone and boring.

~Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

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I think the most appealing characters for the audience are the ones that you never know whether to root for them or whether to hate them. That's what keeps people drawn to their television sets.

~Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

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I'm here to play certain characters and give them a voice that they might not have had. That's my job, and like it or not, that's what I'm here to do.

~Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

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I remember when I first came to America, nobody had a clue what a black Englishman was. I was either South African or Australian to them.

~Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

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As an actor, you just like to be able to play as much range. I just want to be invisible. I want to be able to be perceived as an artist as opposed to 'a black actor': that's the joy.

~Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

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What I like about the Carpenter take on 'The Thing' is the fact that it just has so much suspense. It seemed like a different story, with the horror elements.

~Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

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Those films that really speak to the primal fear that we, as human beings, have about the unknown have always intrigued me. That's the really scary thing, not the slasher, macabre movies. It's the ones that deal with the inner fear: the unknown realms and the mysticisms that are scary.

~Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Topics: About Always Beings Deal Fear Films Human Human Beings Inner Intrigued Me Movies Primal Really Scary Scary Thing Slasher Speak Thing Those Unknown

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I grew up watching 'Rambo' and 'Rocky' and all of those movies, so you have a surreal moment, even as an actor, when you're in front of these guys, whether it's DeNiro or Stallone. You have a moment like, 'Geez, that's Sylvester Stallone,' and then you have to snap out of it and get back in the pocket of the character.

~Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

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I don't really look at genre. I mean, sometimes you might be playing heavies a lot, and you're like, 'Hey, it'd be nice to do a romantic comedy.'

~Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

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To play these twisted, tormented characters is very draining. You have to sit in the pocket of that character for the duration of the shoot, which is normally an average of three months, and that can be taxing!

~Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Actor

Born: August 22nd, 1967

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