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No./ 7 “I told George Clooney that I’d never seen an African astronaut in space”

DAVID OYELOWO hasn’t been spending much time on terra firma lately. He’s breached the realms of fantasy and fiction in — an ode to classic children’s literature co-starring Angeline Jolie — and is shooting off to space in George Clooney’s . Oh, and he’s starring in his own directorial debut, , a sci-fi adventure influenced by the classic Amblin films of the 1980s. We managed to rein him in for a

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