The 'Silo' and 'Bass Reeves' star is a gripping lawman—both past and future
"What I love is the fact that we were doing something contemporaneous that speaks to the now, in terms of some of the themes, and I think that's what great television does," Oyelowo tells me over ZoomBass ReevesWhen you watch, there are so many things that are pertinent in relation to what you are watching on the news today," he says. "To be a human being is to have to come to terms with the fact that your time here is finite.
DAVID OYELOWO: Oh, wow. That's a really good question. I'd love to be a tour guide, because it would be really quick. There's not much of it, so I would have really good hours and I could just go home and relax. The reality is that human beings are not designed to live underground. There are literal conditions that they've found that miners have—and people who spend a lot of time underground or without natural light—it's just not what we are designed to do.
Not only is it intriguing, but it's incredibly satisfying for the audience—because the reality is you don't know who's about to come in, how long they're going to be there, how significant their character is, or when they're suddenly going to be jettisoned from the show. So it keeps the tension sky-high. It also means you're not having to do a ton of heavy lifting in the opening episodes. Beginning episodes can be like,. We don't do that with this.
100 percent. Anyone knows that doing the same thing over and over again for an extended period of time is not ideal. It's not ideal for the audience. It's not ideal if you're a creative person. I'm constantly looking for a new adventure, a new story to tell, and it's wonderful when you get to sit in it for a time and really tell that story. I'm here in Texas right now shootinge get to tell that over eight episodes—and this was an epic, epic life.
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