O. T. Fagbenle

“I think the two main tools actors have are the imagination of what other people have gone through, to connect with and through research, and there's one's own experience.”

“My full name is Olatunde Olateju Olaolorun Fagbenle. I was named after my grandfather. It's Yoruba, which is, like, southern Nigeria.”

“I've always had an explorative drive to my art, as opposed to wanting to achieve some certain goal.”

“I loved doing my own stunts, and so, as much as the insurance people would allow me, I would get involved.”

“Television is obviously changing; the way we consume media is changing, so I think it's natural that we are going to try different styles.”

“Oakland's got a lot of character.”

“I think you can judge a man by the size of what offends him.”

“I'm hungry as an artist to find opportunities to contribute to the world in a more meaningful way than just numbing people through entertainment.”

“When representation of the LBGT community was much more scarce in the media, I think there was some kind of pressure to encapsulate an entire community in a single character - this can often be a fast track to generalization and stereotypes.”

“We've seen from shows like 'Game of Thrones' that the book can become a seed, which you plant in the ground of great TV creators, and it can sprout out into a big tree.”

“Elizabeth Moss may very well be one of the best actresses I've had the privilege of standing opposite and sharing lines with.”

“The older I get, the more I dance like my dad, and I'm finding that suddenly cardigans are becoming more attractive to me.”

“'The Interceptor' has an excitement and grittiness to it, but it's also very entertaining. It lives in this sphere of a slightly heightened reality where, although you completely identify and recognise all the characters in it, they're fun and exciting to watch.”

“I think what we forget is that everybody loses when we keep unnecessary privilege. The cost to society overall is much greater.”

“It's funny because I was looking back on my Instagram,, and I saw that I had a bunch of feminist posts but that was all before 'Handmaid's Tale.'”

“We have flaws, things go wrong, people's hearts get broken, people make mistakes, people fall in love with other people. And that's hard, but that's also part of life.”

“There are certain directors who just don't cast diversely in prominent roles. Ever. Often it's just because they don't have a diverse social circle, so they don't think of black or brown people as husbands, best friends, bosses.”

“I think when YouTube first came out, everyone was thinking people were just going to watch five-minute shows from now on and that people didn't have the patience anymore to watch longer programmes. But instead, everyone is binge watching and consuming ten-hour programmes and box sets of shows, so it is really interesting.”

“I'm not averse to a bit of travel.”

“My whole life, I have considered myself a feminist.”