O. T. Fagbenle Quotes
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'Handmaid's' is the most profound television I've had the privilege to be a part of.
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Elizabeth Moss may very well be one of the best actresses I've had the privilege of standing opposite and sharing lines with.
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We moved back to Britain for my secondary education.
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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.
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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.
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I'm interested in working with great people and exploring great themes in different mediums.
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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.
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My full name is Olatunde Olateju Olaolorun Fagbenle. I was named after my grandfather. It's Yoruba, which is, like, southern Nigeria.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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I think you can judge a man by the size of what offends him.
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I think what we forget is that everybody loses when we keep unnecessary privilege. The cost to society overall is much greater.
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I'm not averse to a bit of travel.
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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.
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I've always had an explorative drive to my art, as opposed to wanting to achieve some certain goal.
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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.
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Love is a hard thing to turn your back on.
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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.
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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.
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Reed Morano is an amazing woman and one of the most extraordinary people I've had the chance to work with.
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Oakland's got a lot of character.
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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.