People have compact to go beyond our own culture and upbringing to a degree that I think we don't acknowledge enough really.

I consider myself a human being, a Christian, a father, a husband, so many things, before being a black person.

To break down prejudice is to get to a place of understanding, that can erode the ignorance.

I don't have a tailor, but I do love clothes.

I basically enjoy doing films that are about something, that have complex roles that I can sink my teeth into. Basically, I gravitate to things that scare me. They might be things that I don't think I know how to play. I like trying to find within me where this character may exist. Whether is it is a fictional character or not I am not motivated by that. It is more about how challenging it is. It is just so happens that the more high profile things I have done have been historical characters.

I do think opportunity breeds bravery. It's such a competitive profession, no one owes you anything, talent in itself is not enough. I went to drama school with so many great actors who are not doing it anymore and it's circumstantial.

I know that there is still a lot of bitterness and anger, and arguably justifiably so, when you think about how brutal slavery was and what its brutal legacy still is.