than likely it is onis: i am glad to have you the program. to "the walking dead" for all your fans. and there were a significant amount of times you turn down of the inauthentic way that african women are portrayed. there must be something authentic about the way you are played in this or portrayed that you wanted to do so tell me more about why you wanted this role and you did not turn this one down. >> this one was a no-brainer, really. the director was fantastic and he is nigerian and has lived in the u.s. a very long time but is still connected to his homeland and telling stories from the continent's perspective. he is a fantastic artist. he is a photographer and has been in the fashion world and doing television and going into film and he had such a tangible and palpable vision of celebrating the african expression on american soil which he has been around in brooklyn for the past 20 years and what he was missing and not saying and i felt the exact team way so connecting with him, i knew i was in the exact right hands to tell the sort of a story which is rarely told but is the

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