English - Actor | February 24, 1989 -
There's a lot of black men running around with crazy trauma scars, and they should be going to therapy. They should be sitting down and talking to people. But they can't. If you've got the armor of being a man, and the armor of being a black man, that hyper-masculine thing can make those scars deeper.
Daniel Kaluuya
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Racism kills people. It kills people!
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Whenever I'm in a film that's from a perspective that is dominant within western culture... I'm always trying to prove myself. When it's from a black perspective, I don't have to - they get it.
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I'm dark-skinned. When I'm around black people, I'm made to feel 'other' because I'm dark-skinned. I've had to wrestle with that, with people going, 'You're too black.' Then I come to America, and they say, 'You're not black enough.'
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People are decisions and actions.
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A lot of times, the people who have the confidence to say, 'I don't know what the rules are, so I'm just going to do what I want,' are the most exciting people.
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If I was at school and one of my friends said something funny, I'd write it down in a notebook and take it to the writers meetings. I never told my friends about it. I just thought I could incorporate stuff that was true to life.
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What's great about 'Skins' is that the characters are exactly like people around you.
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Writing can be really lonely, and I find that bit difficult. I'd rather be around my people, getting ideas.
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When work ends, I'd rather just be seen as Daniel - normal.
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I think the traditional stereotypes are loaded in institutional racism.
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Racism is like a horror movie. Black kids die because of racism. I don't know what's more horrifying than that.
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