My performance, I believe, is about my duty to the script, and my duty to the story that we're trying to tell, and I try to do that in a way that is true, in a way that's going to hold up the script, and that's going to be fun for the viewers to watch.

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My father was Muslim, and my mom is Christian, and we moved from New Orleans to Oakland, so I always had this appreciation for different cultures.

I just want to do work that gets people excited and makes them feel things, no matter their economic or racial background.

I think that everybody likes the bad guy.

I have a love-hate relationship with working out. I do not enjoy the experience when I'm doing it, but I never regret it.

For the things that I've been involved in, most of it has really been - it's been a mixture of action and then drama.

I'm from a place where young people traditionally do not have resources.