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Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

(1986) Actor

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Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is an actor.

Quick Facts About Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

Born: July 15, 1986
Profession: Actor

About Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

[Wikidata] American actor... | [Wikipedia] Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Black Manta in the superhero films Aquaman (2018) and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023), Bobby Seale in the Netflix historical legal drama The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020), and Morpheus / Agent Smith in The Matrix Resur

Quotes by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

I had taken an acting class at Berkeley - I was on the track team, and a friend of mine on the…

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Acting

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I'm so thankful every day.

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Day

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I'm from a place where young people traditionally do not have resources.

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People

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For the things that I've been involved in, most of it has really been - it's been a mixture of action and…

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Action

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I think that everybody likes the bad guy.

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Bad

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When I think about it, I was working very hard the summer before I applied to graduate school. I was going to…

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Day

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'Baywatch' was terrifying. I could feel the financial stakes, you know?

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Baywatch

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Acting was always in the back of my head.

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Acting

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I surprise myself by the things I get excited by.

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Excited

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When I was in college, it was on the recommendation of a friend of mine. He recommended that I take an acting…

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Acting

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I did not sit down and watch 'Baywatch' growing up. But I do specifically remember it coming on, and I remember it…

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Remember

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I'm not very excitable as a person. What I say is, I'm always chillin', I'm always chillin'.

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Always

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I kind of assumed all of Australia was like the Gold Coast - so I was telling people Australians just work out…

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Australia

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I have a lot of fun playing quote unquote villains because I think the bad guys get to have more fun, right?

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Bad

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My father was Muslim, and my mom is Christian, and we moved from New Orleans to Oakland, so I always had this…

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Appreciation

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I have a love-hate relationship with working out. I do not enjoy the experience when I'm doing it, but I never regret…

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Enjoy

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My performance, I believe, is about my duty to the script, and my duty to the story that we're trying to tell,…

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Believe

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I wanted to be an architect, and I ended up at my job in San Francisco, and if you would have asked…

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Architecture

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I just want to do work that gets people excited and makes them feel things, no matter their economic or racial background.

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Economic

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If you look at the story of 'The Get Down,' it's the story of young people, unknowns thrown together by their resources,…

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Create

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I kind of just skyrocketed out of graduate school.

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Education

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I wanted to be Michael Jackson as a kid.

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Jackson

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I'm the youngest of six kids, and I grew up with a lot of noise, a lot of music, and a lot…

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Children

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I was studying architecture at Berkeley when my father passed away in 2007. We knew he had cancer, but we didn't expect…

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Architecture

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I'm a thinker.

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Thinker

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