The Morning Show star Augustus Prew and Sherlock’s Mark Gatiss have boarded Russell T Davies’ ITV drama Nolly starring Helena Bonham Carter.
15.05.2022 - 07:17 / dailyrecord.co.uk
New Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa has revealed he plans to use his acting success to build a school in Rwanda.
When screenwriter Russell T Davies revealed the Rwandan-Scot was to become the new Tardis-travelling Time Lord, he was proud to announce of Ncuti: “The future is here.” But the big-hearted actor has the future of a new generation of youngsters on his mind.
Ncuti, 29, was born in Rwanda but when he was just two years old fled the east African country with his family to escape the brutal civil war.
He came to Scotland as a refugee and grew up in Edinburgh and Fife.
Now he wants to help many of the nation’s most disadvantaged children in the country of his birth have a better future and fulfil their dreams.
Ncuti, who is best known for his role in Netflix hit Sex Education, said: “I want to build a school in Rwanda. There’s so many amazing fresh young minds in Africa that need nourishment from outside.
“There’s a new generation forming and I feel like they need those of us who have left and made money in the west – they need our help.
“I met so many young amazing kids in Rwanda when I went back and they just had so many amazing ideas – great entrepreneurial minds. I feel, ‘Where is the support?’ I want to help.”
Ncuti was deeply affected by what he saw in Rwanda the first time he travelled back there, as a teenager.
He said: “I was born in Rwanda – my parents are Rwandese – then came over to the UK when things there started to get a little bit crazy.
“I grew up in Scotland from when I was two and didn’t remember Rwanda from when I was born there.
“The first time I went back after leaving as a baby was when I was 15.
“When you go back to the place you were born, something very special happens.”
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The Morning Show star Augustus Prew and Sherlock’s Mark Gatiss have boarded Russell T Davies’ ITV drama Nolly starring Helena Bonham Carter.
Ncuti Gatwa did a great job at keeping his Doctor Who casting a secret.
K.J. Yossman When it was revealed earlier this month that “Sex Education” star Ncuti Gatwa would be taking on the role of the new Doctor Who, the whole world was taken by surprise – including Gatwa’s “Barbie” castmates.Simu Liu, who is co-starring alongside Gatwa and Margot Robbie in the upcoming doll movie, revealed Gatwa kept his “Doctor Who” casting a secret for months, with the “Barbie” stars only learning of the news at the same time as the rest of the world.“[He] didn’t tell anyone a thing,” Liu said during a talk with “The Matrix Resurrections” star Jessica Henwick in London on Thursday evening as part of his book tour for his memoir “We Were Dreamers.” “And then all of a sudden over the weekend he was announced.
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