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Age: 30
Occupation: Fitness instructor.
Status: Single.
Can: Cook, look after his dad and steal cars (when necessary)
Interests: Football, snooker, drink, drugs, working out.
Requirements: To escape his past.
Dwight has a constant battle with
Vic, his father, who can't leave the past behind him. Dwight's
working hard to hold it all together, keep fit and is even
going to a therapist. Now his job as a fitness instructor
is part of his new life, but Vic is ever present and attempting
to undermine it all.
"Usually when I read a good script
I get half way through it and make a cup of tea. In this case
I found I was unable to put the script down - it's so compelling,"
Razaaq adds: "I had to know what happened. It gripped me and
I think it will grip an audience like that."
Dwight is the one character who is
already trying to turn his life around after a shady past.
He is seeing a therapist, keeping fit and eating healthily.
Razaaq found theat he could relate to much of Dwight's attitude:
"I am more like Dwight than any of the other characters. Some
guys obviously want to recapture their youth by having mad
nights out and are desperate to prove they are still young
and free but there 's always a line you've got to draw. Dwight
has seen a lot of life and has decided to better himself.
This often puts him at a distance from the other men."
Despite his best efforts Dwight almost
loses everything he has achieved. "When Dwight starts playing
football once a week he just wants to play a bit of sport
and have fun. Little does he know it will end up as a downward
spiral to hell." Razaaq feels though that Dwight finally makes
the right decisions: "The redeeming factor for him is that
when it comes to the rape he is still able to hold onto the
little morality he has left and say no, this is wrong. He
has lost himself before and so knows this isn't where he wants
events to end."
Razaaq Adoti's television credits
include Soldier, Soldier, Dream Team, Thieftakers as well
as roles in the films Amistad and Gangster Number One. Razaqq
is currently filming Black Hawk Down.
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