David Oyelowo

That is just the greatest blessing.

And often Oprah talks about this.

I've heard a lot of artists, whether they be actors or musicians, that music teacher or that drama teacher or that literature professor or teacher that goes, hold on, you.

Yeah, yeah.

There's something going on here.

And I had that in a teacher called Jill Foster, who, you know, I continued to do drama, but it was baked into me by my parents that that's not a proper job.

That's just not what this is going to be.

And I idolized my father, and so therefore it wasn't going to be that.

But this...

teacher who I remember her accosting me outside of a tube station when I was all set to go and do a law degree and saying, David, I wouldn't say this to any of my other students.

I think you could do acting professionally.

And I didn't even know what that entailed.

And she went, well, have you considered drama school?

I said, I don't know what that is.

And she introduced me to what drama schools are.

And she helped me with my auditions.

And that's how I ended up, well, getting a scholarship to go to Lambda.

And, you know, the full circle of this, because within the last month, I went to see my son at the drama school I went to.

playing in an adaptation of the play that I met my wife doing.

And it made me think all the way back to Jill Foster, that what she gave to me by way of advocacy is now having a generational impact on