mr. is thank you bro well away from the
actin yeah you're deep into your music
store and you spit that's right yeah
yeah oh man so like how long you been
speaking for I've been spitting for ages
man about 15 years I mean that's how we
first met each other I think yeah man
now I'm about to release a solo album
blue suitcase later on you're gonna be
performing your track where you from
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it's kind of about that in a way you
know and some people ask you where you
from you're not really sure like what do
you mean like do you mean like if I say
Wembley
are you gonna be like now but were you
really from it's about that annoying
question right now it feels that we're
going really fast in two different
directions on the one hand here we are
man primetime we've got big nos you got
mode they've taken over the chat show
game in the UK so you know biggest subs
up that's progress I mean other
direction we've kind of got this other
movement with people I want my country
back on it to go back to a time when it
was you know simpler and people weren't
talking funny languages and feels like
it's just like a really divided time
right now it's about someone asking you
that question you've got a simple answer
though it seems like you guys sorting
wait wait say that cuz you just stood up
like Britain what
I know something what's gonna break your
mind you know you start the shifty film
yeah yeah
I'm from Harlow yeah I know the real
shifty so it's just it's so
that's kind of scary can we not talk
about the real drug dealers that this
film is about you got cast in the film
because of your it was it because your
haircut originally well my film career
started because of a bad haircut yeah
yeah that's the film so he explained his
story
basically I was at drama school and that
drama school had this thing called a
showcase and I thought let me get fresh
cut and I just went some random barbers
and he gave me a straight up bowl cut
and the crazy thing is that a casting
director came to my drama school that
day and was casting a film with a main
character from real life who looked just
like me with that so the only reason
I've got my first job as an actor is
because I accidentally had that bad
haircut so I got that did that film went
to a florist on amazing weed in
Afghanistan by the so when did this
filming of Varney's thon and it was
called the road to Guantanamo was about
this true life story these guys that
were locked up in Guantanamo Bay and
they finished that film come back go to
Berlin Film Festival win an award we
land back at Luton Airport now and
British intelligence services are there
waiting for us and started going why did
you make a film you know about this did
you become an actor to further the
Muslim struggle and I was like now I
became an actor to get girls this is not
why I
and so and I came out at that they were
like listen you should sue the
government you should give an interview
about it and I thought you know what I
don't want the first time I'm on TV to
be as a victim I want to make some art
about it so I made my first rap song
post-911 blues and when I was making a
music video for it the only director was
desperate enough to make it was this guy
eran creevy made that music video with
him became friends three months later
he's like y'all got a film called
shifties you want to do it so that's the
long way around about bad haircut into
me up here
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yeah we're not talk about that though so
I really wanted this role obviously
turned out to be an amazing film you
know so I went for this audition and
Danny Boyle the director is amazing guy
super friendly you know he saw I was a
bit nervous and it was an argument scene
and so we were doing a reading and I was
a bit shirking and he said all right you
know what's gonna put the script down
just really have an argument with me you
know you can you can you know you can
come at me do everyone I'm not sure I
can't quite remember exactly what
happened next I remember when he called
cut
I had him up against the wall with his
shirt just heard cut and I just looked
up is that thank you very much yes god
email saying are like that so so he's
not gonna non-disclosure things you
couldn't say anything about it so it's
like you know my manager said art is
this you know audition has come up for
his huge films all right cool and then
it's like Star Wars and my managers that
don't tell no one in it
listen I was in the bubble show hey what
kind of film you are gonna be what one
some that say that I'm black and I'm
casting out thinking whoa what what what
role do I want I'm at mean me a
stormtrooper you know the double
lightsaber boarded okay
there's a script arms give you two
minutes read it and yes two minutes two
minutes
listen this was the lines this was the
lies it this is a woman okay when you
ready man
no stop
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you got invites really like that mazing
things like Buckingham Palace you met
the Queen wasn't meeting there you know
her Royal Highness what was that
learning the Queen that was awkward
Wow all good man I mean so it's really
weird because first of all you go into
the castle and you have to form a long
line and basically when you go up to Mir
there's two people stood either side of
her and they read out your name and
loads of people there was like a British
film industry thing that Idris is there
loads of people there
we're all lining up and when I got to my
turn anyway you know rosamma doctor she
put her hand out like this exactly so
what you gonna do so I went like this
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the security of
go like this they think I'm gonna punch
the Queen
so imagine so at this point goes
last-minute like this I was gonna go
like this so in the end I just went like
that
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you