Missy Elliott is making history!
17.10.2023 - 18:15 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Aldis Hodge (Black Adam) and Lauren E. Banks (City on a Hill) are the latest additions to the cast of The Dutchman, the psychological thriller based on the Obie Award-winning play by Amiri Baraka, which began filming under a SAG-AFTRA Interim Agreement in September.
The actors join an ensemble that includes André Holland, Kate Mara, Zazie Beetz and Stephen McKinley Henderson, as we were first to tell you. Emmy nominee Andre Gaines (The One and Only Dick Gregory) is directing from his screenplay written with filmmaker Qasim Basir.
Set on a New York subway, The Dutchman centers on an encounter between a well-to-do Black man and an enchanting white woman who match wits in a sexualized game of cat and mouse that leads to a violent conclusion. The searing confrontation amplifies the dimensions of racial conflict in America in this adaptation of the stage show first presented at the Cherry Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village, New York City, in March 1964, which was later adapted into a critically acclaimed 1966 film starring Shirley Knight and Al Freeman Jr.
Banks comes to the project after studying under Freeman, who served as one of her acting professors at Howard University. “Al Freeman, Jr. was…a constant reminder to me that we stand on the shoulders of revolutionary artists,” said the actress. “After reading The Dutchman script, I found it fresh, ambitious and daring, just like the art that was created during the Black Arts Movement. It not only honors American theater, but it is brilliantly inclusive of the new voices, changes and resolutions of our time.”
The Dutchman‘s producers are Gaines and Emmy nominee Jonathan T. Baker (Sylvie’s Love, The Banker). The film is financed by Gaines’ multi-platform media
Missy Elliott is making history!
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