He’s made a real name for himself, and the increasingly large paychecks have been rolling in accordingly.

I looked back and I felt like Moses!

“I was going for a lot of stuff,” he explained.

Daniel Kaluuya smiling

“But I wasn’t getting roles because of the color of my skin.

It wasn’t fair.

It was a trap.”

Daniel Kaluuya at an event

It was a smart, albeit necessary, move on the actor’s part.

As he toldThe Guardian,the success ofGet Outdidn’t quite sink in at first.

I usually do stuff, and two weeks later it disappears."

Daniel Kaluuya at an event