Chiwetel Ejiofor just opened up on the red carpet about how he's feeling at the Oscars tonight: "I feel like we're representing Solomon Northup […] what we wanted to do was make a film worthy of the subject, worthy of his experience. Those issues are what the film represents, the issues of human respect and human dignity."
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