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Daniel Kaluuya burst onto the Hollywood scene with a leading role in Jordan Peele‘s Get Out, however, during a recent interview the British actor admitted that it almost didn’t happen.
While chatting with Peele for Essence, Kaluuya revealed that he almost quit acting altogether before getting the starring role.
“I’ve never told you this, but when you reached out to me and we had that Skype, I was really disillusioned with acting,” he admitted. “I had stopped acting for like a year and a half.”
“I checked out, because I was just like, this isn’t working,” he continued. “I wasn’t getting roles, because racism and all this