John Boyega and Letitia Wright will star in Steve Mcqueen’s latest project, a TV series set within London’s Afro-Caribbean community.
Small Axe will tell five different stories across six episodes and McQueen said in a statement to the BBC, the series would be “local but at the same time global”. He added the drama’s “dynamic nature” would enable it “to confront injustice in the face of adversity”.
Shooting on the series, which is produced by Amazon Studios and is set to air on BBC One next year, began this week in London.
McQueen, whose films include 12 Years A Slave and Widows, said he wanted to “re-live, re-evaluate and investigate the journeys that my parents and the first generation of West Indians went on”.
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