'Thank God I came to America': Why Oscar nominee Delroy Lindo doesn't see himself as British

He is the Lewisham-born histrion who, astatine the property of 73, finds himself successful the moving for an Oscar.

While Delroy Lindo tin present bespeak that being an Oscar nominee "has a definite ringing to it", the Sinners prima says helium was taken by astonishment astatine the quality erstwhile it archetypal broke.

"My lad called me," helium explains. "I volition not accidental I was asleep, but I was not afloat awake, and I'm listening to my lad precise excitedly accidental however arrogant of maine helium was.

"And I past noticed connected my telephone I had 179 Text messages, truthful I knew that thing was up."

While helium says helium is blessed for viewers successful the UK to "absolutely" basal for him successful the champion supporting histrion class connected Oscars night, the Sinners prima - who moved to the US successful his teens - says helium nary longer considers himself a Brit.

"My vocation has been birthed and nurtured successful America," said Lindo. "I was calved successful Lewisham hospital, my family's from Jamaica, and my ma was portion of the Windrush generation. I americium British to that extent, that is my reality.

"[But] I convey God I came to America, that I went to acting schoolhouse successful America, that I was a New York-based theatre histrion for 10 years earlier I started doing film, and I convey God Spike Lee saw maine connected Broadway."

As an histrion who has softly built a vocation of elevating immoderate task he's in, immoderate of Lindo's astir unforgettable enactment has been with Lee.

In films similar Malcolm X, Crooklyn, Clockers and Da 5 Bloods, he's played men shaped by power, choler and history.

While, arguably, the designation is agelong overdue, his show successful Ryan Coogler's vampire fearfulness Sinners is simply a stand-out one.

His relation arsenic the world-weary blues instrumentalist Delta Slim is 1 of the astir layered characters of the portion - and 1 of the astir talked astir moments successful the Jim Crow-era fearfulness is the monologue Lindo delivers astir a person who was lynched.

"I started proceeding from audiences however that country was resonating for them, and astatine that constituent I knew determination was thing of existent value," helium explains.

"The information that Ryan talented maine that monologue successful the car, that's truly affluent worldly for immoderate histrion to wrestle with."

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Regardless of however galore awards Sinners wins, with its record-breaking 16 nominations it has already made it into the Oscars past books.

Whatever happens, Lindo says he's looking guardant to celebrating each that helium and his co-stars person already achieved.

The Oscars takes spot successful Los Angeles connected 15 March.