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We start 'The Butler' in June and that's incredibly exciting for me because I get to work with the amazing Forest Whitaker again. It's a phenomenal script and a great, great role - I play his son. Oprah Winfrey is his wife and my mother. My character is a radical civil rights activist.

~David Oyelowo

Topics: Activist Again Amazing Because Butler Character Civil Civil Rights Exciting Forest Get Great His Incredibly June Me Mother Oprah Oprah Winfrey Phenomenal Play Radical Rights Role Script Son Start Wife Work

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We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.

~David Oyelowo

Topics: Afford Bid Deny Empowered Our Past

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'The Help' sheds light on a certain truth in America, but the tragedy is if we don't get a chance to contrast it with other points of views. 'The Butler' does that, 'Red Tails' does that and that's what '96 Minutes' does.

~David Oyelowo

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I love tennis, love it!

~David Oyelowo

Topics: Love Tennis I Love

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Love is sacrifice.

~David Oyelowo

Topics: Love Love Is Sacrifice

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I like to think of myself as a physical actor.

~David Oyelowo

Topics: Actor Like Myself Physical Think

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I love that as a black person I've experienced not being a minority. I think that's helped me to combat the minority mentality people can have here, which can stop them scaling the heights.

~David Oyelowo

Topics: Being Black Combat Experienced Heights Helped Here Love Me Mentality Minority People Person Stop Them Think Which I Think I Love

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I know I had my equivalents in Adrian Lester and Lenny James when I was at drama school. I remember David Harewood doing 'Othello' at the National, and Adrian Lester having done Cheek by Jowl's famous 'As You Like It and Company' at the Donmar. Not necessarily performances I saw, but just the fact they happened was massively encouraging.

~David Oyelowo

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I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from which we are living the legacy and which just don't get made.

~David Oyelowo

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Considering that I'm British and I talk the way I do, I love it when a director takes a chance on me.

~David Oyelowo

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: April 1st, 1976

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