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can I ask you something what took you so
long to respond to me I sent you a very
well crafted message three weeks ago and
today out of the blue you hit me up ask
if you want to grab him what change I
didn't feel like being alone
not tonight so you turn to Tendo field
execute turn signal back through one -
you step out of the vehicle for me could
you please hurry up
what do you say it's just cold
the amazing thing is that the incident
which starts it all off in which you
shoot the policeman leaves the viewer
certain that you were in the right and
it's a tragedy that the policeman got
shot but he was gross in the extreme in
the way he treated you and therefore
we're with you all the way of your
desperate journey to try to escape the
law I think why I am really resonated to
me is that in that situation Slim is
trying to do the best that he can do to
deescalate the situation and and trying
to make sure go can you see me can you
see me can you see me can see I'm not
that kind of dad can you see I'm on that
can occur can you see that I see you can
you see that I see you and the
frustrating and fascinating conflict of
that is that him realizing this is out
of his control that no matter what you
do this is gonna end where it's gonna
end and is whether you want to survive
or not where are you going to find
somebody would have false off and call
my family you're a black man killed a
cop let's go I'm not a criminal you are
now it is an extremely American moment
all of it isn't it the whole story it
couldn't quite happen here I mean of
course the same kind of thing could
happen here but just it's the it's the
gun the presence of a gun I come in I
have to submit myself to the story in
similar similar as myself whatever
culture that I'm I'm portraying and it's
to understand that in this reality in
this context that isn't eventually don't
try and say it's like and this it's but
it's way more casual than it is in
England I'm not sure about the laws in a
moment but you get five years right if
you've got if you've got a gun so I
think that's that's it's just used then
you just have different culturally
different attitudes towards guns but in
this incredibly American film I'm an
American in the sense that it's set in
America and behaves as you could believe
it too
how do you manage to sustain American
from from what is to me a very fixed
accent of English I work very hard and
you have to see the people that you're
stepping into and you just have to drill
it every day every day every day every
night and I stay in an accent in the car
in mm-hmm whoever picks me up to the car
out Jensen and I just keep you mean to
the shoot mm-hmm let you know I'm okay
just tell me I mean what was it like
growing up in Camden did you did you did
you act
were you on stage at school not really
I'm on my a teacher at primary school
neighbor of your privacy you walk down
the little Lane where I lived
toreano's snow that's all edges just
these things don't happen you don't
expect
toreano primary school in nw5 yeah to
produce a great Hollywood actor arm you
know how come there's like it's a you
are it's genuinely diverse like I know
some some people some places in London
its diverse but black people there but
what Irish people there would age and
people there like it was genuinely
everyone living together and you used
use force to kind of accept all these
different perspectives all these
different coaches remember wasn't a bus
one time one or two five three and this
this man got up he had purple hair
spikes spikes in his leather jacket
sprites and spikes everywhere and I was
like what's happening I was a kid oh so
what's going on no one better than
earlier I was like mum and it's that
just that acceptance that people are
different just saying is that it's just
that I think that was the gift I feel
like I'm being a blind eye becoming I
feel like I'm socially affluent also I
don't think I'm blessed is I don't have
any expectation I don't know what my
life was gonna be past 14 I just didn't
know so I go anything's possible if I
listen to certain people I would be like
oh no I can't do that I can't do this I
don't even know what Kahn is I think
there's a it's an arts emergency I think
Joey long said it do something start
small
loke will keep going and I think that's
just been my career but are you driven
by ambition done I've got the baton this
is a relay I've got a band I'm gonna
have a variable mm I'm gonna run as fast
as I can as quick as I can
that's no that's the same thing for as
long as I can and I'm not gonna pass on
to someone else like that's all it is
the people before me like I mean the
Windrush generation them people there
they did that for me and my friends and
my people and I've got the batter now as
I said it's just a generational thing
and um and I enough I know I'm connected
to something and I just keep that Daniel
Calera can you shake my hand
thank you very much at him I really
enjoyed that well thank you well thank
you appreciate you really do legendary
business