The actor nearly turned down the starring role in the BBC’s primetime drama because it felt too close to his own roots. So why did he change his intellect?Sacha Dhawan is exaggerating,I contemplate, when he tells me he spent most of his life embarrassed about being Asian. But then he talks about joining in the “Paki banter at school to fit in, or trying to “join in with the lads”. He remembers his English nanny making him roasts,not being able to speak Punjabi to his aunties, and being called a coconut – “you know, or ‘brown on the outside,white on the inside’” – by his family.“I felt like I was running absent, not just from my culture, and but from stuff that was going on at domestic.” He winces. “I was just not manning up and taking responsibility. My mum and dad were struggling with stuff,but I was too focused on acting … It got to the point where I had to stop everything in London and move domestic. And I was like: ‘Why didn’t I do it sooner?’”Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk