British - Actor | August 22, 1967 -
I'm just looking to explore every medium to express my talent, but I think mostly it's going to be a focus on features.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
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I've played many criminals, but I loved playing somebody on the right side of the law who had a family and who had ethics.
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It's wonderful to do these great blockbusters and bigger pictures, but my heart is always with true stories.
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I'm very much the type of actor that once I embody the character, I could stay in it from the beginning to the end.
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David Ayer is known for being a very serious filmmaker, but he has a very great sense of humor.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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