David Oyelowo
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Um, and, uh, but I grew up with my dad telling me that the reason he had these four slashes on his cheeks was because he had fought a tiger and, um, and I completely bought it.
And it was incredibly useful at school.
Every time my dad came to pick me up because, uh, anyone who was messing with me, I was like, you see that on my dad's face tiger.
Do you want that man mad at you?
But we then moved to Nigeria, and I got picked up at the airport by all of my uncles.
And literally, I was like, did everyone fight tigers?
Like, what is going on?
That tiger got around.
It just, like, went rampant on my family, this tiger.
You were born in... I was born in Oxford, England.
And I was there till the age of two, so I don't really remember it.
Then we moved to London, and I was there till the age of six.
And then we moved to Lagos, Nigeria, and I was there till 13, before we moved back to London.