Chiwetel Ejiofor
Chiwetel Ejiofor
Chiwetel Ejiofor, CBE, is a British actor. After enrolling at the National Youth Theatre in 1995, and gaining a scholarship to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, at age 19 and three months into his course, Ejiofor was cast by Steven Spielberg to play a supporting part in the film Amistad as James Covey...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth10 July 1977
Chiwetel Ejiofor quotes about
actors film theater
I fell in love with film. I didn't start out to be a film actor. I wanted to be a theater actor.
thinking kind film
The thing about film is it is a very precise form. You know if you have it and you know if you don't have it. There's not really a middle bit where you're like, "I think we kind of have that scene."
lucky gigs way
I was always lucky that I've always had a gig, I'm fortunate in that way.
play trying actors
I started off doing plays as a theater actor. But I never thought of it in terms of it leading anywhere. I was just trying to be the best actor that I could be in the context of what I was doing.
weight looks lost
I'm constantly looking to see whether I look the same as I did earlier, whether I've put on or lost any weight.
creativity combination feels
Working in this industry, I do feel that science and creativity turned out to be a very useful combination for me.
mother father doctors
I wanted to be an actor ever since I got on stage for the first time, aged 13. Before that, I thought I might follow in the medical footsteps of my parents: my father was a doctor, my mother a pharmacist.
drama character looks
I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer.
actors theater ifs
I wouldnt be the same actor if I couldnt do theater.
writing would-be directors
David Mamet was great to work with. He was everything that I thought he would be as a director. He's incredibly articulate, an easy collaborator. Extraordinarily knowledgeable about film and writing.
feelings way roles
I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed. That's the only way I can express it.
experience younger
I think, as a younger actor, you are more open to the experience. And to an extent, you want to go into things blind and energised as if you were 15. Keep that terror.
editing head less
Normally, if you're lucky, the idea of a film you have in your head is more or less what you get back when you see it after the editing and the whole post-production process.
evolving interested relationship
I have an evolving relationship with my father, and his memory, especially the older I get. I know that some of the things that interested him are things that interest me.