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Ashley Walters (Top Boy): "Me & Kano Didn't Have The Greatest Time!". The Unheard TRUTH About Top Boy, Career Rejection & Personal Grief!

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

Steven Bartlett is a British entrepreneur, investor, and author. He’s the founder of Flight Story – a media company – and Flight Fund, an investment fund backing the next generation of category-defining businesses.
He created The Diary Of A CEO to share the unfiltered pages of the personal diaries of the world’s most fascinating CEOs, experts, therapists, and leaders – with the hope that their lessons will help both you and him live better lives. 
DOAC is a double acronym: Diary Of A CEO, but also Dreamers, Open-minded, Awareness, and Connection.This is your corner of the internet to dream boldly, think openly, expand your awareness, and feel more connected.

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In this new episode Steven sits down with rapper and actor, Ashley Walters.
From Asher D to Top Boy, prison to fame, Ashley Walters refuses to be told what he can or can’t do.
Ashley first gained popular attention in 2001 as Asher D, a member of British Rap Group, ‘So Solid Crew’. Acting in TV shows since he was 10 years old, in 2004 Ashley broke into film with, ‘Bullet Boy’, for which he was named Best Newcomer at the British Independent Film Awards. This led to roles in major Hollywood blockbusters such as ‘Get Rich Or Die Tryin’. In 2011, Ashley starred as Dushane in the massively popular TV show, ‘Top Boy’. 
In this conversation Ashley and Steven discuss topics, such as:

Attending therapy 

His relationship with his father 

His anger with the world as a teenager

His father’s time in prison 

Looking for father figures and role models

Joining So Solid Crew for belonging 

Being a people pleaser and not feeling good enough

His last encounter with his father 

The lessons he learned from his dying father 

Not grieving for his father 

Being a perfectionist 

Obsessing over the fact that he was going to die young

His experience of prison 

Being constantly motivated

Having a strict upbringing 

They key to his talent 

Wanting to escape being himself 

Being naturally shy 

Using acting as a way to escape trauma 

The tough life of acting 

Turning adversity into motivation

Moving into being a director

Always needing the next challenge in his life

His depression during the Coronavirus pandemic 

The importance of forgiveness 

His relationship with his wife 

Struggling with opening up with his emotions

Fatherhood

Not having the greatest relationship with some of his children

Top Boy

How the script for Top Boy got Ashley hooked

Why Channel 4 didn’t make a third season of Top Boy

Why Top Boy became the success it did 

How he will push himself for an acting role 

Filming the last season of Top Boy

His future

Top Boy opening the door for black British culture worldwide

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