Daniel Kaluuya and Kibwe Tavares

An Oscar-winner and a worldbuilder unite to make the angry, roistering feature debut, The Kitchen.

Interview by ROGAN GRAHAM

Daniel Kaluuya and Kibwe Tavares make their feature film debut with The Kitchen, a dystopian drama that follows Izi (Kane Robinson) whose focus is on getting out of the Kitchen, the last surviving social housing estate in the now totally sterile capital of London. LWLies: Community versus individualism is a theme I really connected within the film. How did you decide to explore that through a father/son story? Kaluuya: I feel like a lot of the villains of the community are the parents who don’t tend to their kids. And this is the archetype that is most prevalent in our community, the father that is absent. That’s the individualism [versus] community in a familial sense, me versus family. While we’re exploring the real human story, then we got more of the…

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