There's not much of it, so I would have really good hours and I could just go home and relax. I'd love to be a tour guide, because it would be really quick. AppleĮSQUIRE: If you were in the silo in real life-as David Oyelowo and not Sheriff Holston-what would your job be?ĭAVID OYELOWO: Oh, wow. "I found it to be truly compelling, and in a way, an insight into society," Oyelowo tells Esquire of Silo. Here, Oyelowo dives even further down into the depths of the silo-sharing his reaction to a big twist in Silo's second episode, how he avoided the pressure to follow up Selma, and why he wanted to work with Yellowstonecreator Taylor Sheridan on Bass Reeves. Shows that heighten that fact all speak to the reality of our own existence-and how high the stakes become as a result." "To be a human being is to have to come to terms with the fact that your time here is finite. "When you watch, there are so many things that are pertinent in relation to what you are watching on the news today," he says. But for right now, our minds are still deep in the world of Silo. He's calling from a remarkably well-lit room in Fort Worth, Texas, where he's currently filming Bass Reeves. "What I love is the fact that we were doing something contemporaneous that speaks to the now, in terms of some of the themes, and I think that's what great television does," Oyelowo tells me over Zoom.
Maybe it's a certain pandemic that still has us all in an existential tailspin. Silo is the latest dystopian tale to hit the streaming wars, picking up the baton from Hulu's The Handmaid's Taleand HBO's The Last of Us. Or have the overlords of the silo have been lying? A great mystery, of course, ensues. Humanity is forced to live in a massive silo because the air outside is toxic-killing anyone who breathes it in within a matter of minutes. In Silo, Oyelowo watches over a post-apocalyptic, underground structure that holds 10,000 people. deputy marshal west of the Mississippi River. Later in the year, he'll (very likely) don an actual sheriff's hat in Paramount's Bass Reeves, the real-life story of the first Black U.S. in 2014's Selma, currently stars as Sheriff Holston in Apple TV+'s adaptation of Hugh Howey's celebrated sci-fi novel, Silo.
Oyelowo, known best for his portrayal of Martin Luther King Jr. Both played by David Oyelowo in separate series-one from our nation's history and another far into a dystopian future-the 47-year-old British actor is holding down the law. There's two new sheriffs in town, and there's room enough for both of them.
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