O. T. Fagbenle

“Words can be an act of reductionism.”

“As an actor, you can't play a flashback; you can't play someone's memory. You just have to play each circumstance as if it was real and understand that person's point of view.”

“As a man, having a conversation about feminism can be tricky - the best I can do is to have assumptions and ask questions. You always run the risk of putting your foot in it.”

“There's been such a pushback against political correctness, and I think that's due to the discomfort people feel talking about other people's issues that they don't fully understand.”

“My family is very nomadic - my mom, in particular, traveled the world as a young person, and her father before that, and I guess I have that inside me.”

“I try to encourage myself to act in a way that supports gender equality, and I call that feminist. Whatever word people want to use to call that, I'm not really attached to a label.”

“Love is a hard thing to turn your back on.”

“'The Interceptor' is gritty but also entertaining. The action is great as well.”

“I think what often happens when people leave their spouse for someone else is they tend to go for the opposite of what they already have.”

“I really want to do Broadway.”

“I came to the States less to find fortune and fame and more to kind of have a life experience of seeing something new.”

“I think, unfortunately, we've always lived in a world of massive inequality: inequality between the haves and the have-nots, inequality between men and women that not only exists temporally but geographically as well.”

“'Handmaid's' is the most profound television I've had the privilege to be a part of.”

“As a younger man, I thought the best thing art could do was to challenge people's mindsets, and I still do, but I've come round to the value of entertainment. A show like 'The Interceptor,' which gives the audience that release, after a hard day, of just sitting down and enjoying themselves - that adds value to lives, too.”

“It's hard for men sometimes to talk about feminism, just as it's hard for people who aren't from ethnic minorities to talk about racial prejudice. It's a difficult conversation to have, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't have it.”

“We all fail, and we all have weaknesses. I think that's what helps us relate to characters we see on TV or read in books, is that we recognize our frailties within them and maybe don't feel so alone. We get to learn from their mistakes.”

“We moved back to Britain for my secondary education.”

“I'm interested in working with great people and exploring great themes in different mediums.”

“I'm interested in colour-blind hiring of directors, producers, and writers. Go to the source. Then we won't need to have conversations about colour-blind casting.”

“My family are quite academic, and I was set to study economics and politics at university.”