you need to be able to step outside yourself, and you don’t necessarily need to have real-life experiences to draw upon. - Carmen Ejogo

I can remember being very keen to go to drama school at the age of eight, and practising ballet in my bedroom to Queen soundtracks.

There’s a social attitude toward being fairly accepting of violence, and coupled with the access to guns, in some ways we’re already at a place where in certain communities, gun violence is already rife—and in some ways, because of policy, it’s kind of condoned from the top.

Success for me will be where the body of work I’ve done afforded me the opportunity to be as good as I can be, and to explore myself and to see what I’m capable of. People like that share a willingness to be scared and to take chances.