Oakland's got a lot of character.

O. T. Fagbenle

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As a younger man, I thought the best thing art could do was to challenge people's mindsets, and I still do, but I've come round to the value of entertainment. A show like 'The Interceptor,' which gives the audience that release, after a hard day, of just sitting down and enjoying themselves - that adds value to lives, too.

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As an actor, you can't play a flashback; you can't play someone's memory. You just have to play each circumstance as if it was real and understand that person's point of view.

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There's been such a pushback against political correctness, and I think that's due to the discomfort people feel talking about other people's issues that they don't fully understand.

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I think what we forget is that everybody loses when we keep unnecessary privilege. The cost to society overall is much greater.

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As a man, having a conversation about feminism can be tricky - the best I can do is to have assumptions and ask questions. You always run the risk of putting your foot in it.

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'The Interceptor' has an excitement and grittiness to it, but it's also very entertaining. It lives in this sphere of a slightly heightened reality where, although you completely identify and recognise all the characters in it, they're fun and exciting to watch.

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There are certain directors who just don't cast diversely in prominent roles. Ever. Often it's just because they don't have a diverse social circle, so they don't think of black or brown people as husbands, best friends, bosses.

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'Handmaid's' is the most profound television I've had the privilege to be a part of.

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I'm interested in colour-blind hiring of directors, producers, and writers. Go to the source. Then we won't need to have conversations about colour-blind casting.

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'The Interceptor' is gritty but also entertaining. The action is great as well.

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I loved doing my own stunts, and so, as much as the insurance people would allow me, I would get involved.

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I think what often happens when people leave their spouse for someone else is they tend to go for the opposite of what they already have.

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Love is a hard thing to turn your back on.

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When representation of the LBGT community was much more scarce in the media, I think there was some kind of pressure to encapsulate an entire community in a single character - this can often be a fast track to generalization and stereotypes.

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I think the two main tools actors have are the imagination of what other people have gone through, to connect with and through research, and there's one's own experience.

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We all fail, and we all have weaknesses. I think that's what helps us relate to characters we see on TV or read in books, is that we recognize our frailties within them and maybe don't feel so alone. We get to learn from their mistakes.

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My family are quite academic, and I was set to study economics and politics at university.

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We moved back to Britain for my secondary education.

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I really want to do Broadway.

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My full name is Olatunde Olateju Olaolorun Fagbenle. I was named after my grandfather. It's Yoruba, which is, like, southern Nigeria.

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