Because I Was Big, I Didn't Have

I Find That A Lot Of Actors Who Are Good And Open To Challenges Have Lived A Full Life. When You Walk Into An Audition, You Have More To Say For Yourself Because You Come From The Real World. It's More Enticing For Directors, I Think.

I Lived In America For A Long Time Before I Started Working As An Actor. Some Actors Show Up On Set And Have Never Done An American Accent Before, So They Rely On A Slew Of Technical Mechanisms. Part Of What Makes An Accent Is Understanding Why People Speak That Way - You Have To Understand The Culture.

I'm Not Interested In Making All-black Films - I Come From A Very Diverse Culture, I Want To Work With Every Type Of Person. I Work A Lot With Women Executives Because They Seem To Be A Lot More Open Minded About That And A Lot More Progressive In That Way.

The Role Of My Agent Has Just Been To Get Me In The Room. If I Can Get In The Room - Say The Character Is Just A Charming Man Who Lives Next Door - Then I'll Walk In There And Be As Charming As I Can And They Will Think To Themselves, 'i Don't See Why We Can't Cast Him.

I Was On A Well-beaten Path Of Actors - What We All Call 'the Law And Order Route'. I Spent Two Years Of Auditioning For Everything... And Then 'the Wire' Came Up.