I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.
Chiwetel EjioforAll roads lead home in the end. You've got to keep that in mind always - in your work and in your life.
Chiwetel EjioforI try to just be open to what the next experience is and how it makes me feel, just reading a project, or trying to get involved with a project, or thinking about a project, and what particular emotional flavor that brings. To me, it's never really about planning the next thing, or the career arc. It's about investigating how I feel, from project to project, and finding things that I haven't explored and what that would be like.
Chiwetel EjioforI fell in love with film. I didn't start out to be a film actor. I wanted to be a theater actor.
Chiwetel EjioforI like finding things out beforehand, because I'm nervous in disposition, and I worry that if I don't do anything, then I'll turn up and I still won't really have a sense of it, and it might be too late. So I like to get things as organized as I possibly can in my own head, to apply myself to the work before arriving to a late-in-the-day rehearsal, or in extreme cases, the first day on set.
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