David Oyelowo (Courtesy: Austin Hargrave)
By: Scott Feinberg
The Hollywood Reporter
“I know, for a fact, that there is no film out there in the current season that is as unusual, in terms of how it came to be and what it actually is,” the actor David Oyelowo says of his most recent big-screen project, Queen of Katwe, as we sit down at New York’s Empire Hotel to record an episode of The Hollywood Reporter‘s ‘Awards Chatter’ podcast. In Katwe, Disney’s first live-action film made with an all-black cast and set and shot in Africa, Oyelowo, under the direction of Mira Nair, plays Robert Katende, a Christian outreach worker in Uganda who mentors a young chess prodigy.
The 40-year-old British actor of Nigerian descent, who is best known for his Golden Globe-nominated portrayal of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 2014’s Selma, currently is in the Big...
By: Scott Feinberg
The Hollywood Reporter
“I know, for a fact, that there is no film out there in the current season that is as unusual, in terms of how it came to be and what it actually is,” the actor David Oyelowo says of his most recent big-screen project, Queen of Katwe, as we sit down at New York’s Empire Hotel to record an episode of The Hollywood Reporter‘s ‘Awards Chatter’ podcast. In Katwe, Disney’s first live-action film made with an all-black cast and set and shot in Africa, Oyelowo, under the direction of Mira Nair, plays Robert Katende, a Christian outreach worker in Uganda who mentors a young chess prodigy.
The 40-year-old British actor of Nigerian descent, who is best known for his Golden Globe-nominated portrayal of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 2014’s Selma, currently is in the Big...
- 12/18/2016
- by Carson Blackwelder
- Scott Feinberg
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