Kingsley Ben-Adir has weighed in on his appearance in Netflix's The OA, identifying why he believes it's an alternative to "overly violent" TV.
The second season of the hit sci-fi fantasy show is almost upon us, and for Kingsley, the mysterious narrative is a fantastic option in a television landscape packed with bloodlust and barrier-breaking violence.
Kingsley - who portrays Karim Washington in the upcoming second series - recently spoke to Digital Spy about the appeal of The OA.
"You could deconstruct it and say that it's maybe the fact that all the kids are misfits and different, and there's some characters that we don't normally see represented who are represented. The way that they come together is unusual," he explained.
"There's so much individuality in it. I haven't seen everything, but I can say, in my reference or my experience, I've never seen anything that's even a tiny bit similar to The OA."
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The actor then elaborated on what separates the project from its TV contemporaries: "Brit (Marling, star and creator of the show) was explaining before – I probably won't do a great job of summing it up – about how The Movements were their way of expressing the opposite to violence.
"Violence is so overly represented on screen, and we see violence so much, and we believe it. And The Movements were kind of a way of being the opposite of that – to have a different effect to violence, which was really interesting."
The OA: Part II drops on Netflix next week (March 22).
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