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Watch Chi­we­tel Ejio­for reveal his favourite heist movie

19 Feb 2016

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Find out which clas­sic ​’70s Dustin Hoff­man crime dra­ma left a last­ing impres­sion on the British star.

To coin­cide with the release of John Hillcoat’s gang­land thriller Triple 9, we sat down with one of the film’s stars, Chi­we­tel Ejio­for, to find out his all-time favourite heist movie.

Watch his answer in the video below, in which he also talks about his expe­ri­ence work­ing on anoth­er high-stakes crime flick, Spike Lee’s Inside Man.

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