Amma Asante is drinking tea – “If you have PG Tips, all the better,” she calls to the retreating waiter – in the plush quietness and gleaming surfaces of London’s Cafe Royal. At the other end was actor David Oyelowo, whom Asante had known since they worked together on the BBC drama Brothers and Sisters back in 1998. Her father, she tells me, was a pan-African, a man who believed in a united states of Africa. Asante locates in much of the fear that surrounds the conversation an interesting insight into entitlement. We conclude by talking about broader issues of representation within the film industry, and specifically in the context of her recent membership of the Academy.

Source: The Guardian October 02, 2016 07:30 UTC