Ncuti Gatwa

I've always been a bit scared to say that I'm Scottish because it's almost as if people wouldn't believe me or people…

— Ncuti Gatwa

Face your front' is a saying in my parents' culture. 'Face your front, don't look left and don't look right.' Don't be…

— Ncuti Gatwa

First and foremost, at drama school it gets drilled into you that you say yes to anything. If they say, can you…

— Ncuti Gatwa

You make your own destiny.

— Ncuti Gatwa

I think there's quite a narrow representation of gay people on TV and I think that we need to push that. And…

— Ncuti Gatwa

Resilience has always been something I've seen and admired.

— Ncuti Gatwa

I mean, in theatre, you can't really save that much money when you live in London.

— Ncuti Gatwa

I think I have got quite a posh Scottish accent. It's funny because I grew up in Oxgangs and Fife.

— Ncuti Gatwa

I am from Scotland and moved down to London when I was 21.

— Ncuti Gatwa

It's very important to see a black gay teen represented.

— Ncuti Gatwa

As an actor you have good spells and bad spells.

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I think it's quite natural as an actor to compare yourself to how well other people are doing and how other people…

— Ncuti Gatwa

Costume really helps you feel in character.

— Ncuti Gatwa

I was born in Nyarugenge, a district in Kigali, Rwanda.

— Ncuti Gatwa

When I lost weight due to only eating once a day, people said how lean and healthy I looked.

— Ncuti Gatwa

I was so skint when I moved down to London and I never had money, ever.

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I love Ghanaian food.

— Ncuti Gatwa

People really cannot understand the concept of a black boy in a tracksuit in London being from Scotland.

— Ncuti Gatwa

The strangest place I have been recognised is a urinal. I was like: 'Why are you talking to me now?' That is…

— Ncuti Gatwa

Yeah, we were refugees coming to the U.K. and I definitely now view myself as a Rwandan Scotsman.

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I was homeless.

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My mum is a fashion inspiration to me. She always goes to great lengths to get ready in the morning, from her…

— Ncuti Gatwa

Once people you haven't met and don't even know you hate you, that's how you know you've made it.

— Ncuti Gatwa

If I can encourage people to stand up and take space and make noise, then I'm very happy to do so.

— Ncuti Gatwa

The only thing stopping me from being on the streets was the fact I had friends. But you can use up that…

— Ncuti Gatwa