Justin Chadwick
Birthday:
1 December 1968, Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK
Justin Chadwick was born on December 1, 1968 in Manchester, Lancashire, England. He is a director and actor, known for The Other Boleyn Girl (2008), Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013) and The First Grader (2010).
When you talk to people now in their 80s and 90s who knew Mandela as a young man, they remember a brilliant lawyer and a fantastic orator, b...Show more »
When you talk to people now in their 80s and 90s who knew Mandela as a young man, they remember a brilliant lawyer and a fantastic orator, but they also remember a 'star'. He had a magnetism about him. He gave off electricity when he came into a room. Idris [Elba] can do that too - he has that warmth and radiance about him. Show less «
Mandela was very much alive and knew what we were doing when we were making the film. He himself has said he doesn't want to be remembered a...Show more »
Mandela was very much alive and knew what we were doing when we were making the film. He himself has said he doesn't want to be remembered as a saint, he wants to be remembered as a man. Ans he was a man. He was a young man. He had hopes and ambitions and dreams that were just like any other young man who wanted to be the best of what he did, and have a family and children, and to be a great lawyer, and to be a success. And this pernicious evil - drip, drip, drip effect on him - it just did not stop. Everything I researched led back to this man, and what it cost him as a man, a flesh and blood man who was a dad who had hopes and dreams. I want my sons to go and watch that and see. I mean, isn't that what makes this journey all the more extraordinary? Show less «
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