“I definitely felt growing up that I wasn't seen as the same as anyone ...” — Ncuti Gatwa Quote

“I definitely felt growing up that I wasn't seen as the same as anyone around me because no one around me looked like me. There were no black Scottish role models.”

“My mum and dad were born into nothing and came to this country with nothing. They've had to make so many sacrifices so I wouldn't have to make any, and always supported me.”

“I think I have got quite a posh Scottish accent. It's funny because I grew up in Oxgangs and Fife.”

“The climate-studies people who work with models always tend to overestimate their models. They come to believe models are real and forget they are only models.”

“Thinking I'd be in politics just wasn't something I'd thought of as a younger woman. There just weren't a lot of role models there.”

“I never really think of anyone as models, even the models.”