When a big payday comes in the form of an offer from an old friend and CEO of a generic Big and Bad Corporation (Eckhart), it’ll set him up for life but cost him three years.

Like anything else, you get used to it. Embarrassingly I was in Calabar in the southeast of Nigeria making Half a Yellow Sun. I was travelling back to America and putting my bags on the counter and the airport lady asked my name. I said ‘Chiwetel Ejiofor… c-h-i’.

The scenes, characters, lines, premise and influence of the six-part saga are so entrenched in our culture and so much on instant recall to the whole of Generations X and Y that satirising them from your unique perspective is a shoe in for critical success.