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How ‘The Underground Railroad’ Helped Heal Star Thuso Mbedu’s Personal Trauma
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variety.comDiedre Johnson The Amazon original series “The Underground Railroad” centers around Cora, a young Black woman fighting to escape slavery.
When Cora leaves, she encounters a fantastical vision of mid-19th century America, where the underground railroad is a real train running from state to state through tunnels — and each “station” brings its own promise and peril.Cora carries a burden: As a young girl, she was abandoned by her mother, who escaped and vanished.
Most actors would have to plumb their psyches to conjure the character’s feelings of abandonment and grief.The actor who won the role, though, knows them all too well.Thuso Mbedu, a rising star from South Africa, read Colson Whitehead’s novel once she was slated to screen test.
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