{"id":84569,"date":"2026-02-06T18:41:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T18:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=84569"},"modified":"2026-02-06T19:05:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T19:05:25","slug":"84569","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/06\/84569\/","title":{"rendered":"Masculinity and vulnerability aren&#8217;t exclusive, says Bafta-nominated director"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/3840\/cpsprodpb\/873c\/live\/01a14b90-01f1-11f1-bb50-17f4fe9ab2e3.jpg\" alt=\"Actor Sope Dirisu walks down a dusty road whole holding the hands of young actors Godwin Chiemerie Egbo and Chibuike Marvellous Egbo. Sope is wearing a purple striped shirt and jeans. The boys are wearing jeans and T-shirts. \" width=\"602\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-l7emlr-ComponentWrapper e1aon0op1\" data-block=\"metadata\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-126h8e-Spacer e1aon0op0\">\n<div data-testid=\"metadata\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-10q9h22-GroupChildrenForWrapping eh44mf02\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-m5j4pi-MetadataContent eh44mf00\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-vxwoax-ComponentWrapper e1aon0op1\" data-block=\"text\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-126h8e-Spacer e1aon0op0\">\n<div data-testid=\"rich-text\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-nqezkk-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">&#8220;Your father will instil values in you,&#8221; says film director Akinola Davies Jr.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c1wzvpw9g8jo\"> Read More<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h1 id=\"main-heading\" class=\"ssrcss-1nhd1qf-Heading e10rt3ze0\" tabindex=\"-1\"><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>&#8220;Your father will instil values in you,&#8221; says film director Akinola Davies Jr. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Akinola_Davies.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84584,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84569\/revisions\/84584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}