Ncuti Gatwa

I love Ghanaian food.

— Ncuti Gatwa

You make your own destiny.

— Ncuti Gatwa

I was a wild teenager.

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I was homeless.

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The black gay experience isn't one that is often told.

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

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

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Nobody should be getting silenced.

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Representation goes a long, long, long way.

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I try not to leave Tottenham - it's my happy place.

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I would like to try to cap rent prices.

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Nobody's going to erase mine or anyone's existence.

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Adebayo Oke-Lawal is so talented. He takes risks to make his suits different.

— Ncuti Gatwa

Unfortunately, when you're a parent and you completely love your child, it can make you act a bit crazy.

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

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You don't need to bow down to peer pressure or be comparing yourself.

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I loved Hackney because they embraced me really, like with open arms.

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

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To be able to show your creativity or your creative expression on your body is a very powerful thing.

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The gym I used to train at is heavy-duty - it's a tough man's gym in Tottenham.

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I was a working-class kid in a middle-class environment. Fashion was my way of saying, 'You can tap me for this and…

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

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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…

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I grew up in a working-class area, and I stood out - for my voice, my appearance, I did dance and things…

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My mom put me in this extracurricular dance class when I was a kid. And so I think that just started the…

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You get on the tube and you notice everyone's looking at you, and you're like, 'What's on my face?' It always takes…

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Because my parents are Rwandan, there was always a lot of colour and artwork in our house and that informed my love…

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I was supposed to move into a new place and it fell through. So for five months before Sex Education, I was…

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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…

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Hair in the black community is such a big thing culturally. The barbershop is a place for black men to socialise, catch…

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My career had been going pretty well until I took a job touring America. When I returned, it took time to remind…

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When I moved to Dunfermline, it was the first time I realised how different I looked to everyone else who grew up…

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Make-up are the first people the actors go to on set every day - they see you at your most vulnerable. Then…

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I'd been warned that acting was an unstable profession and knew my parents couldn't support me financially. I had assured them I…

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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…

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Maybe six months out of drama school, I was working at the Dundee Rep Theatre, I worked there for about a year,…

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I always had faith in my charisma.

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A lot of our sex education at school is so biological.

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As an actor you have good spells and bad spells.

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Asa Butterfield is a big prankster.

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