Hounsou was the headline guest at this year’s AfroBerlin conference. The wide-ranging keynote session was hosted by Deadline. Hounsou spoke about his childhood in Benin, moving to France as a teen, where he became a fashion model before moving to Los Angeles to chase acting roles.
After featuring in a few smaller productions, Amistad was Hounsou’s largest production at the time. He told the audience in Berlin that he was the first actor to be brought in for an audition. And when he arrived, the casting director, unbeknownst to all the actors, began asking whether they could speak any African language and, if so, perform their assigned scenes in the dialect.
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