How Daniel Kaluuya's hard life in Uganda made him change the way he works

Kaluuya says that on one of his trips to Uganda, he met a woman who didn't have a kitchen. When it started to rain while she was cooking, she had to cover her pots with leaves. Kaluuya, who grew up in public housing in London, said he stopped complaining and focused on his work because he realized he had a lot more than what he had in Uganda.

"When I have six weeks off, I sometimes just go to Uganda. When I left the country for the first time. The entire six-week period. I had never left the country before. And imagine I'm there, and sometimes there's no electricity. There's no bathroom. It's a big change. It made me feel small, "When he was on the Winners Talking Podcast, Kaluuya said.

"I had been somewhere where everyone looked the same as me. I got more confident while I was there, and I felt like I fit in. We went to a woman's house, where she lived in a bush. I thought I was from the estate at the time. I used to go there with that attitude, and when I did, she cooked for me and for us. When it began to rain, she covered us with leaves "he went on.

"It was how she did things. She just felt thankful. She felt lucky to have what she did. Then I thought, "Look at me, I'm in London, I have running water, electricity, and chances, and I'm complaining." It just made me feel better. And that's something you can't really understand until you've lived. It just made me stronger. I think I went back to London, and that's when I started my career. Because I just saw opportunities."

The Oscar-winning actor, who is 33 years old, had a big break in his career when he was in Jordan Peele's horror movie Get Out in 2017. He has been in movies like Black Panther, Queen & Slim, and Nope, which were all big hits.