Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje – The unwavering survivor
26 October 2019 |
8:54 pm
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje is a man who has carefully curated his image. A man with a powerful story, his story is of one who took the script that life handed to him, rewrote and converted it into a film. Inspired by his traumatic childhood - a cocktail of rejection, racism and identity crisis - Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje wrote and directed the biopic film, Farming.
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