There was no way of getting love. If all you have experienced is humiliation and rejection, and your foster father forces you to fight back or get a beating from him, you look for any kind of lifeline. There were only two options: fight, or become a victim. I tried the victim option for a long time.

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There was no way of getting love. If all you have experienced is humiliation and rejection, and your foster father forces you to fight back or get a beating from him, you look for any kind of lifeline. There were only two options: fight, or become a victim. I tried the victim option for a long time.

On the rationale that eventually led him to join the skinheads despite being British-Nigerian in “‘Farmed’ out to a white family, I became a skinhead: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje on his first film” in The Guardian (2019 Sep 8)