SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: 12 Years A Slave star blasts 'colonial' British film crews
Leading black British actor Chiwetel Ejiofor has launched a scathing attack on the British film industry, accusing its crews of acting like 'colonialists' when they film in West African countries.
The Hollywood star, nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor in 2013 after his role in 12 Years A Slave, has also hit out at their imperialist language. 'We use military terms, don't we? We 'shoot',' says the 38-year-old. 'And the way that works when you're in a foreign country, when you're thinking about a British cast and crew is that people tend to sort of channel their inner colonialist.
'Like, 'How would my great-grandfather have ruled these masses?' It's ridiculous.'
Chiwetel Ejiofor, pictured with Naomie Harris at the GQ Men Of The Year Awards after party, has lauched a scathing attack on the British film industry
Ejiofor was in West Africa in 2012 to film Half A Yellow Sun, produced by the British Film Institute. He starred as Odenigbo opposite fellow black British star Thandie Newton, who played his sister, in the adaptation of the novel about the Nigerian civil war in the 1960s. It was filmed across five weeks in Tinapa Studio, Calabar and Creek Town in Nigeria.
This is not the first time the actor has spoken out against problems of race. While promoting Steve McQueen's 12 Years A Slave last year, he said we have a 'reflex fear' that stops us exposing the truth of Britain's debt to slavery.
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