Sex Education star Ncuti Gatwa has spoken about how his role in the show “undid a lot of the internalised hate [he] had”.The Rwandan-Scottish actor, who plays gay teenager Eric Effiong in the coming-of-age Netflix series, reflected on how the character had impacted his life during a recent interview with Elle.“I’ve experienced racism my whole life, and while I always believed in myself, always knew [racists] were stupid and uneducated, I guess it did misinform my view of how the world works,” he continued.“It makes you think everyone has that opinion and you’ll constantly have to fight through life – then you learn that you don’t: you can find a tribe, you can find your people.”Gatwa also thanked Sex Education creator Laurie Nunn for “giving nuance” to his “gay, Black character and gifting him to the world”.The actor went on to describe Eric as “so fierce and unashamed”, adding: “It was healing for me, and great for people to see themselves represented. It taught me the importance of representation: it’s so powerful and necessary.”Over the summer, Gatwa revealed that producers on Sex Education once spoke to him about ad-libbing lines of dialogue, saying they didn’t feel “like white people [would] understand” them.“And I was like, ‘It’s not for white people to understand’,” he said. Sex Education‘s fourth and final season is due to arrive on Netflix on September 21 – check out the official trailer here.Nunn explained the decision to bring the hit comedy-drama to an end in a letter to fans in July.“We wanted to make a show that would answer some of the questions we all used to have about love, sex, friendship, and our bodies,” she wrote.
‘Silent Roar’ Review: A Fresh Debut Feature From Scotland Surfs Playfully Across Classic Themes of Sex, Death and Religion
18.08.2023 - 21:43 / variety.com
Catherine Bray Dondo’s dad is dead. That’s one of the first things we learn in writer-director Johnny Barrington’s spry, offbeat debut feature “Silent Roar” — this year’s Edinburgh fest opener.
This information is delivered by Paddy the Priest, a preacher with shrewd eyes and wild hair. Standing on the doorstep, addressing an audience of the late fisherman’s widow and teenage son, Paddy (Mark Lockyer, excellent in a small but potent role) intones, “It must be coming up a year now since he was taken by the waves.
Fishing on the Sabbath as he was, I hear.” Technically, Dondo’s dad is missing at sea, but despite the atmosphere of religious conviction that hangs over this small Scottish island community, nobody has much faith in the possibility of his survival.Dondo, however, is a dreamer. His father’s fate hasn’t quenched his thirst for the ocean.
A keen surfer with a light and likeable optimism about him, he appears to derive a kind of spiritual satisfaction from riding the waves. Played with quiet zest by Louis McCartney, Dondo is the polar opposite of his sparky, confrontational schoolmate Sas (Ella Lily Hyland): When a teacher asks her not to wear noisy metal bangles during the hush of an exam, she responds by staring the man down and loudly asking, “Are you asking me to remove an item of clothing?” Hyland brims with punkish “The Wild One” energy — it’s a treat to watch her rebelling against whatever they’ve got.Building on the promise of his short films “Trout” and “Tumult,” both of which bowed at Sundance, one of Barrington’s trump cards here as a filmmaker is his ability to build a vivid sense of place around these characters.
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