Chiwetel Ejiofor & Thandie Newton cover TW’s May 2014 Issue
TW Magazine presents its May 2014 issue starring Half of a Yellow Sun lead actors Chiwetel Ejiofor and Thandie Newton.
Fresh off a super busy awards season
which saw him pick up the BAFTA award for “Best Actor” and a Oscar
nomination, he visited Nigeria to help promote the production.
Having lost his father at the young age of 11, Chiwetel opens up for the first time about how his mother (Obiajulu Ejiofor) raised him and his siblings alone.
He speaks of how the movie Half Of A
Yellow Sun resonates with him, as his then 13-year-old mother was
directly affected by the Biafra war in which she lost a brother.
Chiwetel also speaks candidly about growing
up in a very Nigerian
household and his hopes for the Nigerian film industry, which he plans
to be a part of.
