The rocky time came right after I left school. I spent a lot of time at night navigating the streets of Paris trying to find something to eat.

The lack of diversity, specifically in genre films and the superheroes our kids grow up watching and emulating, they can't really identify with. When you see the same thing, over and over again, and it seems not to speak of you and your heritage and your culture, it leaves you out of this world a little bit.

My passion is more about bringing the stories out from the African continent mixed with the West.

Djimon Hounsou Quotes