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David Oyelowo

👤 Speaker
390 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
David Oyelowo Returns

No, it is the joy about being a parent, but it is also terrifying.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
David Oyelowo Returns

I mean, like, Jess was literally 19 when we got engaged.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
David Oyelowo Returns

My daughter, my youngest, is 14.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
David Oyelowo Returns

That in five years, I mean, it's a ridiculous thought.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
David Oyelowo Returns

But my dad didn't get married till he was 40, didn't have me till he was 42.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
David Oyelowo Returns

So I just thought that's what I will do.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
David Oyelowo Returns

And then I met this woman who I just couldn't picture any future days without her in it.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
David Oyelowo Returns

And it just happened early.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
David Oyelowo Returns

And I remember going to my dad and saying, this is the woman I want to marry.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
David Oyelowo Returns

Um, and he, and he was just like, absolutely not that it is way too early.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
David Oyelowo Returns

It is, you know, and I just, I remember saying to him, well, you're invited to the wedding.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
David Oyelowo Returns

If you want to come, if not, I'm doing this.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
David Oyelowo Returns

And, uh, and, and that was my, my position on it.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
David Oyelowo Returns

And, uh, he had to kind of find his way to the reality of that.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
David Oyelowo Returns

And I, and two biggest decisions of my life were in defiance of my dad who I married and the profession I went into.