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Thuso Mbedu, William Jackson Harper, Aaron Pierre, Sheila Atim and Joel Edgerton speak of picking up cues from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel and director Barry Jenkins
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Thuso Mbedu, William Jackson Harper, Aaron Pierre, Sheila Atim and Joel Edgerton speak of picking up cues from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel and director Barry Jenkins
Oscar Award-winning director, Barry Jenkins, has adapted Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel,
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Meet Thuso Mbedu: the breakout star of The Underground Railroad
The eagerly-awaited TV adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel arrives this week Courtesy For the entirety of our talk, I keep wondering if Thuso Mbedu is aware that in probably less than a weeks’ time her entire life is about to change. Although already an established (and award-winning) star in her native South Africa, her leading role as runaway slave Cora in the eagerly-awaited
The Underground Railroad is about to explode her internationally.
She sits in her LA apartment, a self-effacing grin visible between her bucket hat, and seems relaxed and unfazed. It seems entirely fitting for a woman who effectively accidentally auditioned for the role of a lifetime.
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At once historical and fantastical, Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer- and National Book Award-winning novel “The Underground Railroad” depicts an alternate version of the 19th-century American South in which a literal subterranean railway helps ex-slaves escape from plantations, carrying them to freedom through a succession of strange and inhospitable lands. The director Barry Jenkins best-known for the Oscar-winning movie “Moonlight” has adapted the book into a ten-part series, starring Thuso Mbedu as Cora, who flees her captors in Georgia and