Host Kirsty Young asked her about BBC director general Mark Thompson's recent comments on his regret at the lack of older women on television.

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"Anyone who sees that movie will see Nicole Kidman did virtually everything else that Lee Daniels asked her to do, " Oyelowo was heard telling Mark Lawson on Wednesday's Front Row.

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