David Oyelowo expects to share “lots of backstage banter” about James Bond with Daniel Craig when the pair co-star in Othello in New York.<\/p>\n
The British stars are due to start rehearsals for the off-Broadway Shakespeare production next week.<\/p>\n
James Bond actor Craig will play Iago with Oyelowo in the title role.<\/p>\n
Previews for the sold-out play, directed by Sam Gold, begin at New York Theater Workshop on 22 November.<\/p>\n
Over the weekend Craig added to intense speculation about his future as 007 whenhe described Bond as “the best job in the world”.<\/p>\n
Asked this week whether he would be discussing Bond with his co-star, Oyelowo said: “There will be lots of backstage banter on that. I’ll see how much I get paid to break the story! Who knows? But I think we’ll be concentrating on Shakespeare.”<\/p>\n
Oyelowo told the BBC he had not been on stage for about 10 years and was “really looking forward to it”.<\/p>\n
“It’s always nerve-wracking being on stage – that’s partly why you do it,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I am always looking for opportunities to scare myself, to challenge myself – that’s the way you become better as an actor. So this is another opportunity to do that.”<\/p>\n
He said that preparations for Othello had been “challenging” because he had been busy promoting two films – A United Kingdom and Queen of Katwe – at the London Film Festival.<\/p>\n
“I’ve had to focus on that but as of next week I’ll be in a rehearsal room and I will shut the world out and we’ll go for it,” he said.<\/p>\n
Oyelowo began his stage career in 1999 with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He was the first black actor to play an English king in a major Shakespeare production in the RSC’s 2001 staging of Henry VI.<\/p>\n
He has also starred in BBC spy drama Spooks and played Martin Luther King in 2014 film Selma.<\/p>\n
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