David Oyelowo

I think that's why my dad really wanted to be there, just to be around it, which is why I ended up being born there.

And he decided he was going to go into the medical profession.

Until, as he tells it, he realized he had an apoplectic fear of blood.

And so, you know, I can't remember if it was a day that they were supposed to be dissecting a cadaver or something like that.

And yeah, he was out cold.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, no, I mean, to find the thing it is that you truly love and that it loves you back is, I think, Elysium.

My dad took a while to sort of... I don't know that he ever actually found the thing that he really... He would try a lot of different things?

Well, he tried medical profession, decided he didn't like blood, so he wanted to be an architect, couldn't really draw...

So, yeah, I mean, you know, the happiest he became ultimately was he and my mom ran a sort of minicab firm in London.

So that, yeah, just driving people around was the thing he sort of became happy with.

Well, because I was at this youth theater group that I'd only attended because I fancy this girl who, you know, I don't know that she knew it.

And I just kept on going for her.

But I was very shy.

And we were rehearsing a play.

And I would always just sit, you know...

hoping I would maybe be in the chorus or something so that I could keep seeing this girl.

And then one day there was a tube strike, like a subway strike.

And the three guys who were being touted to play the lead were all stuck on trains.

And so the director said to me, David, just read in while we wait for the guys to arrive.