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Hot (ish) on the heels of Framing Britney Spears, Mobeen Azhar sets out to untangle the complexities of the “conservatorship” financial arrangement under which Spears’ father has controlled her financial affairs for the past 13 years. He travels from Spears’ current residence of Los Angeles to her hometown in Kentwood, Louisiana.
Thuso Mbedu new face to watch in Hollywood! By Quincy Mahlangu
The two-time Emmy-nominated actress is set to play a lead role on Barry Jenkins’ series
The Underground Railroad, adapted from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
She’s the first Mzansi woman to have a lead role in an American TV series and is described as someone who has broken the narrative. Issa “New Face to Watch” on the May/June issue of @essence magazine! Available now, she wrote on Instagram.
Now part of the international series, Thuso told
Essence she fell in love with acting at high school. She first realised her talent after moving her class to tears with her delivery of a poem.
The Underground Railroad, the new limited series from director
Barry Jenkins that’s based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by
Colson Whitehead, has already released several gorgeous teasers. Now, as we get closer to the premiere date, there’s a new trailer, and it once again makes it clear that this is going to be an absolute must-see. Featuring gorgeously lit cinematography via
James Laxton, the look of this series alone puts so many other shows to shame. Watch
The Underground Railroad trailer below.
The Underground Railroad Trailer
The Underground Railroad, Cora (
Thuso Mbedu) escapes a Georgia plantation and goes looking for “the rumored Underground Railroad,” only to discover it’s “no mere metaphor, but an actual railroad full of engineers and conductors, and a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Over the course of her journey, Cora is pursued by Ridgeway (
The Underground Railroad trailer previews Barry Jenkins’ Amazon miniseries
Amazon Prime Video has released the full trailer for Oscar-winning filmmaker Barry Jenkins’ limited series adaptation of T
he Underground Railroad, which will be available for streaming on May 14. The video provides us a better idea of difficult journey that Thuso Mbedu’s Cora will have to go through in order to reach freedom. It also highlighted the series’ stunning cinematography and gripping storytelling that are known to be present in Jenkins’ previous works. Check out the video in the player below!
Based on Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, the series will be set in an alternate timeline where the Underground Railroad is literally a secret railroad station, instead of the real-life network of secret routes and safe houses that were established by Abolitionists.