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"FacebookPinterestundefined \n\nIt\u2019ll change your world. That\u2019s Chiwetel Ejiofor, talking about wandering off into some bushes near New Orleans, where the ghosts of the past still linger. If you\u2019re driving on the freeway in Louisiana and you see a bit of brush, like a thicket, and if you stop the car and get out of that car and try to walk one hundred meters, your life would change. You know what I mean?\n\nWe do, because his did: This year, Ejiofor stepped onto the set of 12 Years a Slave\u2014a film about the terrible things that once happened in those Louisiana woods\u2014and emerged a bona fide star and Oscar favorite. His portrayal of Solomon Northup, a man separated from all he loves, is more than just one of the most steely and deeply felt performances to grace a screen in 2013\u2014it\u2019s a worthy and serious tribute to a real person who witnessed the worst mankind was capable of and survived to tell his own story.\n\nSolomon Northup liked to say that he didn\u2019t believe there could\u2019ve been anything darker in the history of mankind but what he witnessed on a certain day. And you\u2019re constantly just shocked and just reminding yourself that under the same sun, in the same location, these things occurred. After 12 Years a Slave, no one who sees it will ever forget.\n\nzach baron (@xzachbaronx) is  GQ\u2019s staff writer."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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