Sterling Okay. Brown is starring in one other Hulu sequence the place the world isn’t precisely because it appears.
Washington Black, set for launch on July 23, is an adaptation of Canadian writer Esi Edugyan’s 2018 novel that follows the lifetime of an 11-year-old George Washington Black after a life-threatening incident forces him to flee from the sugar plantation in Barbados the place he was born. Luck and a pure curiosity within the sciences lead Washington on a journey across the globe, the place he kinds a brand new understanding of his previous and is ready to dream unimaginable potentialities for his future as a Black man within the nineteenth century.
Within the sequence (which now has a trailer, under), younger Washington is performed by Eddie Karanja (The Sandman, Jack and the Beanstalk) and grownup Washington, also called “Wash,” by Ernest Kingsley Jr. (The Sandman, Warfare of the Worlds). Tom Ellis (Lucifer) portrays Christopher “Titch” Wilde, an explorer and impressive engineer who first takes Washington beneath his wing and helps him escape.
Tom Ellis and Eddie Karanja in Washington Black.
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All eight episodes of Washington Black will premiere on July 23 on Hulu within the U.S. and Disney+ internationally.
It’s throughout Washington’s travels to Nova Scotia that he encounters Brown’s Medwin Harris, a Black refugee who dangers his life to guard Wash and different members of the Black neighborhood in Halifax. It’s additionally there that he meets his love curiosity Tanna Goff, a mixed-race girl of standing, performed by Iola Evans. Different stars within the sequence embody Rupert Graves, Edward Bluemel and Sharon Duncan-Brewster.
Selwyn Seyfu Hinds (The Twilight Zone) is the creator of the difference and co-showrunner alongside Kimberly Ann Harrison. The pair are additionally government producers together with Brown, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Wanuri Kahiu, Mo Marable, Rob Seidenglanz, Jeremy Bell, Lindsay Williams, D.J. Goldberg, Jennifer Johnson and Anthony Hemingway. Moreover, Edugyan serves as co-producer. Washington Blacok is produced by twentieth Tv Manufacturing in affiliation with Indian Meadows Productions and The Gotham Group.