O. T. FAGBENLE

My family are quite academic, and I was set to study economics and politics at university.

I think you can judge a man by the size of what offends him.

I've always had an explorative drive to my art, as opposed to wanting to achieve some certain goal.

The older I get, the more I dance like my dad, and I'm finding that suddenly cardigans are becoming more attractive to me.

As a younger man, I thought the best thing art could do was to challenge people's mindsets, and I still do, but I've come round to the value of entertainment. A show like 'The Interceptor,' which gives the audience that release, after a hard day, of just sitting down and enjoying themselves - that adds value to lives, too.

'The Interceptor' is gritty but also entertaining. The action is great as well.

It's funny because I was looking back on my Instagram,, and I saw that I had a bunch of feminist posts but that was all before 'Handmaid's Tale.'

My full name is Olatunde Olateju Olaolorun Fagbenle. I was named after my grandfather. It's Yoruba, which is, like, southern Nigeria.

We've seen from shows like 'Game of Thrones' that the book can become a seed, which you plant in the ground of great TV creators, and it can sprout out into a big tree.

Words can be an act of reductionism.

Elizabeth Moss may very well be one of the best actresses I've had the privilege of standing opposite and sharing lines with.

Oakland's got a lot of character.

I think what we forget is that everybody loses when we keep unnecessary privilege. The cost to society overall is much greater.

I came to the States less to find fortune and fame and more to kind of have a life experience of seeing something new.

I really want to do Broadway.

Television is obviously changing; the way we consume media is changing, so I think it's natural that we are going to try different styles.

I'm interested in colour-blind hiring of directors, producers, and writers. Go to the source. Then we won't need to have conversations about colour-blind casting.

I'm not averse to a bit of travel.

I'm hungry as an artist to find opportunities to contribute to the world in a more meaningful way than just numbing people through entertainment.

My family is very nomadic - my mom, in particular, traveled the world as a young person, and her father before that, and I guess I have that inside me.

I think when YouTube first came out, everyone was thinking people were just going to watch five-minute shows from now on and that people didn't have the patience anymore to watch longer programmes. But instead, everyone is binge watching and consuming ten-hour programmes and box sets of shows, so it is really interesting.

My whole life, I have considered myself a feminist.

It's hard for men sometimes to talk about feminism, just as it's hard for people who aren't from ethnic minorities to talk about racial prejudice. It's a difficult conversation to have, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't have it.

I think what often happens when people leave their spouse for someone else is they tend to go for the opposite of what they already have.

When representation of the LBGT community was much more scarce in the media, I think there was some kind of pressure to encapsulate an entire community in a single character - this can often be a fast track to generalization and stereotypes.