Exclusive: David Oyelowo talks playing a Nigerian character in new Netflix sci-fi 'The Midnight Sky'

Oyelowo stars alongside George Clooney, Felicity Jones in newly launched Netflix post-apocalyptic sci-fi directed by Clooney.

Within the movie which relies on the 2016 novel ‘Good Morning, Midnight’ by Lily Brooks-Dalton, Oyelowo performs Commander Adewole, a personality that majorly contrasts from the unique character.

Actually, character revamps occur each different time in book-to-film variations however there’s something fairly completely different and satisfying in regards to the start of Commander Adewole.

David Oyelowo just lately spoke solely to Pulse on naming the character and the way essential it was for him to adequately symbolize his roots.

Talking on his character, Oyelowo revealed that he had first proposed the identify change to director, George Clooney whereas on the set of the movie.

“I’ve nearly by no means seen a black particular person being the pinnacle of astronauts in a film and I had most undoubtedly by no means seen an individual of African descent, who’s of Nigerian descent. So I went to George Clooney and I mentioned look, ‘My identify is Commander Harper, I’m one among 5 folks tasked with saving the world, I feel one among these folks ought to be very clearly an African’ and he agreed.”

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For Oyelowo, his character’s Yoruba identify which means ‘the king has entered the room’ was fairly symbolic. “It was slightly wink to us Nigerians to say we’ve got arrived”.

‘The Midnight Sky’ follows the story of Augustine Lofthouse, a scientist who makes an attempt to avoid wasting what’s left of humanity by venturing into the arctic circle to warn a returning spaceship of the worldwide disaster that occurred of their absence.

In line with Oyelowo, manufacturing wrapped up shortly earlier than the Covid-19 outbreak which fortunately spared the forged and crew the challenges of filming whereas practising security measures.

‘The Midnight Sky’ is at present streaming on Netflix.