My definition of bad-ass is that I'm a force of nature and true spirit. I'm self-admitting that, and it sounds vain to say that, but I am.

Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.

I've got two smoking guns that just look incredible, and I love to pull them out whenever I can.

There has been a big debate about it: can a black man play a Nordic character?

I love to play different roles. That's just the kind of actor I am.

I love working. I'm a workaholic and I'm really privileged for some of the jobs I get offered and so I just want to keep going.

Even when I went to America I didn't work for four years. It wasn't like I came to New York and it was the land of milk and honey. It was just as much of a hard graft. But there's a lot more opportunity nowadays across the board for actors, no matter what color you are, with the Internet and small productions.