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19.01.2023 - 19:39 / deadline.com
Hello and welcome to another episode of the Scene 2 Seen Podcast!! I am your host Valerie Complex, associate editor and film writer at Deadline. On today’s episode is actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw.
Her latest project Amazon series Surface (where she also serves as executive producer), Raw stars as Sohie, a woman who has suffered a traumatic head injury that has left her with extreme memory loss, believed to be a result of a suicide attempt. As Sophie embarks on a quest to put the pieces of her life back together with the help of her husband and friends, she begins to question whether or not the truth she is told is in fact the truth she has lived. Showrunner is Veronica West (High Fidelity). You can view the trailer here to get a taste.
Looking back into her career history, Raw is an award-winning actor of the stage and screen. Her stage performances include Hamlet (2009) alongside Jude Law in the West End, Elsinore in Denmark and Broadway, and Nell Gwynn (2015), for which she was nominated for ‘Best Actress’ at the 2015 Evening Standard Theatre awards.
In film, Gugu has starred in Larry Crowne (2011) alongside Tom Hanks, and period drama Belle (2013), for which she won Best Actress at the 2014 BIFA Awards. She has also starred in Concussion (2015) alongside Will Smith, In 2018, Raw starred in Ava Duvernay Disney film A Wrinkle In Time opposite Oprah Winfrey and Reese Witherspoon. In March 2019, the actress starred as ‘Ruth’ in supernatural thriller, Fast Color. The film follows Ruth as she is forced to go on the run when her superhuman abilities are discovered. In November 2019, she also started in starred in Motherless Brooklyn alongside Ed Norton, Bruce Willis and Willem Dafoe.
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are bringing the star power and then some. With Beyonce's nominations this year, she became the first female solo artist to .
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