I Hear God As An Audible Voice.

When You Reflect Upon The Significance Of Dr. King To This Nation, It's Criminal That He Hasn't Had A Feature Film That Was Centered Around Him Until Now. That, In And Of Itself, Was Emotional. But When You're Doing Scenes On The Edmund Pettus Bridge, With People Still Living In Selma And Now In Their 60s And 70s Who Had Actually Marched, Who Were There That Original Bloody Sunday, That's Humbling... That's Deeply Moving. You're No Longer Acting At That Stage, You're Just Reacting, Because It Takes The Filmmaking Process To Another Dimension.

I Have Been In Films Before Where People Have Been In A Rush To Label Them As A Black Film Or Even As A History Lesson. These Are Ways To Make The Film Feel Niche And Not For Everyone.

Getting To Do What I Think Was My Fifth Bbc Drama With Nikki Amuka-bird - We've Done 'shoot The Messenger,' 'five Days,' 'the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency,' 'born Equal' And Now 'small Island' - Was Another Highlight For Me. And Filming In Jamaica Was Great, Too.

I Hear God As An Audible Voice.

I Never, Ever Do A Film And Just Kind Of Move On. I Think Of Them As Children Of Mine, And You Don't Give Birth To A Baby And Just Leave It On Someone Else's Doorstep. You See It All The Way Through College.