Chiwetel Ejiofor talks about losing his father in a car accident at the age of 11: “Grief is what you live forever.”

Chiwetel Ejiofor is open in a frank new interview about the loss of his father Arinze in a car accident at the age of 11.

Ejiofor, now 44, UK GQ About riding with his dad driving along the Nigerian highway when their car collided with a truck.

Only Ejiofor, who had a broken bone and was in a coma, survived. He now has an accident scar on his forehead.

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The actor said: “Grief lives forever in many ways. Losing a young parent can have a huge impact on your outlook on life.

“At an early age, you realize the value of some things and the preciousness of life itself. That’s what most people get later. The particular fears and neuroses you definitely have. Justification. Some are done, but you lose a lot of ideas about knowledge.

“I don’t know if it’s because of my father’s death, but there is a gap in the knowledge that I have to acquire myself while traveling my life.”

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Elsewhere in the interview, Ejiofor talks about the success of the 2013 movie “12 Years A Slave” and how he believes it led to the green light of a particular movie.

“”[Its] The overall cultural importance is incredibly powerful and continues to resonate, “he shares. “It is argued that some of the success of” 12 Years “leaded to the decision to promote” Black Panther. ” “

He also tells the magazine about the progress made in the fight for racial equality: One way.

“And much of the West tried to remove some of that programming, but it’s a long and difficult process because certain people stick to it very enthusiastically.”

May issue of UK GQ It will be available as a digital download and newsstand on May 3rd.

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