Ncuti Gatwa is opening up about bringing authentic culture to “Sex Education.”
The actor, who plays Eric in the Netflix series, told British Vogue that during the first season of the critically acclaimed show, producers tried to shut down his in-character ad-libbing as it could potentially isolate white viewers.
“There were producers coming up to me like, ‘This ad-lib, I don’t feel like white people will understand it,'” Gatwa said. “And I was like, ‘It’s not for white people to understand. There are many white people in this show for white people to understand, but I want this other group of people to understand Eric. And that’s what you want too.'”
Gatwa added, “And they got that. We were all constantly learning on that job.”
The “Barbie” actor continued of playing the gay Nigerian-Ghanaian teen, “When the show first came out, I was living in Tottenham,...
The actor, who plays Eric in the Netflix series, told British Vogue that during the first season of the critically acclaimed show, producers tried to shut down his in-character ad-libbing as it could potentially isolate white viewers.
“There were producers coming up to me like, ‘This ad-lib, I don’t feel like white people will understand it,'” Gatwa said. “And I was like, ‘It’s not for white people to understand. There are many white people in this show for white people to understand, but I want this other group of people to understand Eric. And that’s what you want too.'”
Gatwa added, “And they got that. We were all constantly learning on that job.”
The “Barbie” actor continued of playing the gay Nigerian-Ghanaian teen, “When the show first came out, I was living in Tottenham,...
- 6/14/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Ncuti Gatwa is gearing up for a busy back half of 2023 thanks to his supporting role in “Barbie” (opening in theaters July 21), his fourth and final season of Netflix’s “Sex Education” (coming in the fall) and his introduction as the title character of “Doctor Who” (coming this Christmas). Gatwa touched upon all of these roles in a new British Vogue interview, revealing that a producer on the first season of “Sex Education” once approached him with a warning about ad-libbing lines of dialogue in character.
“There were producers coming up to me like, ‘This ad-lib, I don’t feel like white people will understand it,’” Gatwa said. “And I was like, ‘It’s not for white people to understand. There are many white people in this show for white people to understand, but I want this other group of people to understand Eric. And that’s what you want too.
“There were producers coming up to me like, ‘This ad-lib, I don’t feel like white people will understand it,’” Gatwa said. “And I was like, ‘It’s not for white people to understand. There are many white people in this show for white people to understand, but I want this other group of people to understand Eric. And that’s what you want too.
- 6/13/2023
- by Zack Sharf
- Variety Film + TV
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