WUNMI MOSAKU will soon star in HBO’s upcoming new high-profile series Lovecraft Country. Based on the novel of the same name, Lovecraft Country will be created by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions, J. J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, Misha Green and Warner Bros. The series will combine drama, fantasy and horror and was given a straight-to-series order by HBO. The series follows Atticus Black as he joins up with his Uncle George and friend Letitia to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America in search of his missing father. Wunmi will play Rudy Dandridge, a hustler whose family ties are tested when she’s presented with an offer she can’t refuse…
Lovecraft Country will begin shooting this summer.