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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

Topics: Always Becomes Bit Boring Characters Intriguing Just Me More Multifaceted Never Note Play Really Want You

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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

Topics: Appealing Audience Characters Drawn Hate Keeps Know Most Never People Root Sets Television Them Think Whether You I Think

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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

Topics: Certain Characters Give Had Here Job Like Might Play Them Voice

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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

Topics: Average Character Characters Draining Duration Months Normally Play Pocket Shoot Sit Taxing Three Tormented Twisted Very Which You

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If I hadn't left South Africa, I felt I was at risk of being pigeonholed. I looked around and saw actors who, 10 to 15 years into their careers, were still playing stereotypical Afrikaans characters, stereotyped Indian characters. That was not something that I wanted for myself.

~Adhir Kalyan

Topics: Actor Africa Around Being Careers Characters Felt Indian Left Looked Myself Pigeonholed Playing Risk Saw Something South South Africa Stereotypical Still Wanted Were Who Years

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All of the actors that have served to me as inspiration over the years have been those more associated with dramatic work who have, in turn, been able to embody their characters and lose themselves in those characters that they create.

~Adhir Kalyan

Topics: Able Actor Associated Been Characters Create Dramatic Embody Inspiration Lose Me More Over Served Themselves Those Turn Who Work Years

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With a few notable exceptions, literary fiction in the U.K. is dominated by an upper and upper middle-class clique who usually have a tin ear for the demotic and who portray working-class characters with, at best, a benevolent condescension.

~Adrian Mckinty

Topics: Benevolent Best Characters Clique Dominated Ear Exceptions Few Fiction Literary Literary Fiction Middle-Class Notable Portray Tin Upper Who Working-Class

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Because of England's lack of social mobility, unless they make truly heroic efforts, writers who are privately educated and then go on to Oxbridge or an institution like the BBC will generally embarrass themselves when they attempt to have a go at working- or lower middle-class characters.

~Adrian Mckinty

Topics: Attempt Because Characters Educated Efforts Embarrass England Generally Go Heroic Institution Lack Like Lower Make Middle-Class Mobility Privately Social Themselves Then Truly Unless Who Will Working Writers Bbc

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I had gone to New York with no plan at all. I did a lot of jobs - barman, teacher, security guard, postman and construction worker - and I was meeting many eccentric characters, and they were saying funny things, which I always wrote down.

~Adrian Mckinty

Topics: Always Characters Construction Did Down Eccentric Funny Funny Things Gone Guard Had Jobs Lot Many Meeting New New York Plan Postman Saying Security Teacher Things Were Which Worker Wrote York

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I love the trilogy form. I like the idea that you can establish a character in book one. And then in the second part, you can take the characters down to their darkest point. And then in the third part, you have total freedom either to give them redemption - or just to kill them.

~Adrian Mckinty

Topics: Book Character Characters Darkest Down Either Establish Form Freedom Give Idea Just Like Love Part Point Redemption Second Take Them Then Third Total Trilogy You I Love

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