David Oyelowo

Oh, I had the whole thing.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

It was made a little while ago, and it was one of those... The alchemy of making movies, man.

We made it with a company that went into insolvency, and so we had to get the film back and all that.

And then there was the writer's strike and all this stuff before we're now getting the movie out.

But...

And weirdly, I've had so many instances like this, like Selma took seven years to get made.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

From when I first auditioned for it to when it actually got made.

Right, exactly.

And it was the opposite.

I mean, I watched five directors come and go before it ended up being Ava DuVernay.

I watched that film go from Lyndon Johnson being the central character to it finally being Dr. King, as it always should have been.

And to your point,

You know, I truly believe these things because I'm a big believer in the power of storytelling.

And I do think often the ones that really go on to be impactful, they sometimes take time to come to fruition in the right way.