Our streaming entertainment options are overwhelming — and not always easy to sort through. This week, I watched "The Underground Railroad," a 10-episode adaptation of.
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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.
For Thuso Mbedu, the road that led to T
he Underground Railroad was marked by trauma. But like the series itself, her journey affirms the hardy human spirit (as seen in her tattoo that reads: Faith, Hope, Love).
Candice Frederick
There s a moment in
The Underground Railroad that is so visceral it may linger in your mind long after you see it.
Cora (Thuso Mbedu), a formerly enslaved runaway, walks slowly toward her estranged mother (Sheila Atim) and slashes her throat with a surgical blade.
This vivid, stunning dream sequence one of many in Barry Jenkins s sprawling adaptation of Colson Whitehead s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel illuminates Cora s inner turmoil. Her mother, Mabel, fled the Georgia plantation where they were both enslaved, leaving 11-year-old Cora to suffer alone as a Black child in pre-Civil War America.