Djimon Hounsou Feels Hollywood ‘Cheated’ Him — ‘I Have Yet To Meet The Film That Paid Me Fairly’

“I’m still struggling to try to make a dollar!” Hounsou told the outlet. “I’ve come up in the business with some people who are absolutely well off and have very little of my accolades. So I feel cheated, tremendously cheated, in terms of finances and in terms of the workload as well.”

“I’ve gone to studios for meetings and they’re like: ‘Wow, we felt like you just got off the boat and then went back [after Amistad]. We didn’t know you were here as a true actor,’” he recalled. “When you hear things like that, you can see that some people’s vision of you, or what you represent, is very limiting. But it is what it is. It’s up to me to redeem that.”