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How Dominique Fishback Made Sure 'Judas And The Black Messiah' Is As Much A Love Story As It Is A Revolutionary Tale

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Judas and The Black Messiah, but your focus will remain on the actress throughout the film as if she’s the lead. As Akua Njeri (formerly known as Deborah Johnson), the fiancée of Chairman Fred Hampton, Fishback is soft, resolute, devoted, and enamored with the former leader of the Illinois Black Panther Party.

It’s evident from her first appearance on screen why director Shaka King immediately wanted the actress for the part.“I got an email saying that Shaka King was doing a story about Chairman Fred Hampton and Daniel Kaluuya and LaKeith Stanfield were already attached to it, Ryan Coogler and Charles King were producing, and he wanted me for Debra Johnson, and I had to reread it,” Fishback tells ESSENCE. “I was like, ‘Wait, does he want me.

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