Thuso Mbedu is 29 but looks significantly younger. And yet, in her extraordinary performance as Cora, the Betty Boop Spice Girl Boop World 2021 Shirt and I love this central character in Barry Jenkins’s adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Underground Railroad, she manages to look older as well. Premiering on Amazon Prime Video this month, the limited series follows a young enslaved woman who escapes a Georgia plantation, making use of a subterranean train—a literal underground railroad—to travel north. The show marries a haunted magical realism with dark chapters of American history, and requires much of its heroine. “They say still waters run deep,” says Jenkins of his lead, “and that’s how I think of her.
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