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It's a strange thing, but you get this click in your brain; the wonderful feeling that the entirety of a character is suddenly available and accessible to you.

~Chiwetel Ejiofor

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In England, there's no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.

~Chiwetel Ejiofor

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The idea of making a film - a film that I had certainly never seen before - about the slave experience was a huge responsibility. It's a project that requires a wider understanding of the geopolitical nature of the slave trade, of historical and modern-day racism.

~Chiwetel Ejiofor

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The truth is, it's a totalitarian dictatorship when you're making films. You are the boss. You can listen to other people, and it can be a benevolent dictatorship, but it's a dictatorship nonetheless. A lot of directors go past their first experience, that's what they've come away with.

~Chiwetel Ejiofor

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I loved reading when I was young. I was just completely taken by stories. And I remember taking that into English literature at school and taking that into Shakespeare and finding that opened up a whole world of self-expression to me that I didn't have access to previously.

~Chiwetel Ejiofor

Topics: Access English English Literature Finding Just Literature Loved Me Opened Reading Remember School Self-Expression Shakespeare Stories Taken Taking Up Whole World Young I Remember

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I wanted to be an actor ever since I got on stage for the first time, aged 13. Before that, I thought I might follow in the medical footsteps of my parents: my father was a doctor, my mother a pharmacist.

~Chiwetel Ejiofor

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I had done a couple of auditions for 'Amistad' and didn't feel it was going to go any further - and then the call came about heading to Los Angeles to work with Steven Spielberg. It was surreal: exciting, challenging, overwhelming.

~Chiwetel Ejiofor

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When I first had my eyebrows waxed, I was pretty disturbed.

~Chiwetel Ejiofor

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I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed. That's the only way I can express it.

~Chiwetel Ejiofor

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This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride in the finished article hasn't ever surpassed the joy of doing the work, of making it. The doing it is really the bit I'm there for.

~Chiwetel Ejiofor

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Actor

Born: July 10th, 1974

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