Hulu Drama ‘Washington Black’ Adds Rupert Graves As Series Regular, Shaunette Renée Wilson As Recurring
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Rupert Graves (Riviera, Sherlock) has joined Hulu’s anticipated limited series Washington Black as a series regular, with Shaunette Renée Wilson (Indiana Jones 5, The Resident) signing on to a recurring role.Graves and Wilson join a previously announced series regular ensemble led by Ernest Kingsley Jr.
and Sterling K. Brown, which also includes Eddie Karanja, Tom Ellis, Iola Evans, Edward Bluemel and Sharon Duncan-Brewster.Selwyn Seyfu Hinds (Twilight Zone, Strange Adventures) is adapting the nine-episode drama series based on Esi Edugyan’s international bestselling novel of the same name.
It will follow the extraordinary 19th-century adventures of George Washington (“Wash”) Black (Kingsley Jr.)—an 11-year-old boy on a Barbados sugar plantation who must flee after a shocking death threatens to upend his life.
As previously announced, Brown is playing the gregarious, larger-than-life Medwin Harris, who traveled the world after a traumatic childhood as a Black refugee in Nova Scotia as the de facto Mayor of Black Halifax prioritizes the community over everything except Black, his young protégé.
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