Oyelowo has fielded endless rumours that he’s the next Bond. He’d find such a routine question the very height of tedium if it didn't confirm just how far colour-blind casting has come. 🟠 Nick_Duerden interviews David Oyelowo
This doesn’t mean that he ignores race, however, and those films in which he has played real people have packed a punch. He was Martin Luther King in Selma, while his turn in A United Kingdom, about a mixed-race couple, was based on the true story of the heir to the throne of Bechuanaland, who settled in London after the Second World War.
“When I was a kid, watching copious amounts of TV, it would have made such a difference had I seen more of Africa, and Africans, or African-Americans, or women, on screen. The cultural potency of film and television is indisputable, and so my participation in it has always been to help things to move forward. If you’re not part of the solution,” he adds, “you may be part of the problem.”A devout Christian, Oyelowo once said, “I don’t really do films that don’t have some kind of message to them.
The joke here, of course, is The Mousetrap never finishes its theatrical run – it’s still going strong today. So a film about a play about a murder becomes a film about a film about a play about a murder… and this is just the tip of its farcical thrust. Oyelowo, who stars alongside Saoirse Ronan, Sam Rockwell, Ruth Wilson and Shirley Henderson, plays Mervyn Cocker-Norris, a camp screenwriter trying to produce a script to please the cranky Hollywood producer. This is easier said than done.
Might these characters recognise themselves in his merciless depiction? He laughs. “Of course not! Absolutely not! They’d be horrified at the very notion of [being seen as] anything but a very talented artist to be taken seriously at every turn.”
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