DAVID OYELOWO - Actor / Director

Team Deakins

James Ellis Deakins

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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of the Team Deakins Podcast, we’re joined by actor and director David Oyelowo (LAWMEN: BASS REEVES, THE WATER MAN, SELMA) to discuss his career and his craft. A television-addicted latchkey kid in his youth, David later spent several years with the Royal Shakespeare Company before embarking on his career on the screen with chameleonic aspirations. While discussing his performance as Seretse Khama in A UNITED KINGDOM, we consider the steep barriers to entry for a global audience to immerse themselves in the history of a period film set in a specific African country and the power of drawing an audience in to the story through the personal rather than the political. David later reflects on his journey to play Dr. King in SELMA, describing to us how the script’s focus evolved as new directors took over the project, what director Ava DuVernay said to financiers to finally get the project off the ground, and how he took inspiration from actor Daniel Day-Lewis to embody the essence of Dr. King’s character. We also discuss David’s directorial debut, THE WATER MAN, and how he leaned on his past collaborators to prepare for the project.
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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to season two of the Team Deacons podcast, a collection of informal conversations between Roger and James Deacons and a guest.
0:15.0	We never know where the conversation will take us, so listen in and see where it goes.
0:20.0	This episode is sponsored by Aperture, a company with a global footprint spanning four continents.
0:29.8	A aperture is a driving force in LED cinema technology,
0:34.2	renowned for their cutting edge lighting and software solutions.
0:38.2	focused on enabling filmmakers to achieve their creative vision,
0:42.4	they've built a lighting ecosystem of over 20
0:45.2	different fixtures that can be controlled wirelessly through their software
0:49.5	platform, CITES Linc. Today we're speaking with an actor and director.
0:58.0	His acting credits include The Butler, A Most Violent Year,
1:01.0	Selma, and the midnight sky. He's directed the film The Waterman.
1:06.5	We're happy to welcome David O'Yello today. David, thank you.
1:11.5	Yeah, welcome. And I just realized I said your name wrong.
1:14.0	No, you didn't.
1:15.0	No, you didn't.
1:16.0	It was pretty good.
1:17.0	Oh, okay.
1:18.0	Oh, okay.
1:19.0	Oh, on both sides of yellow.
1:20.0	Oh, yellow.
1:21.0	It's funny, I can always feel the panic brewing as the inevitable moment where you have to say.
1:27.0	It's too, I get it, it's too many vowel sounds altogether and it induces panic, you did incredibly well.
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