Corey Hawkins has joined the cast of HBO Max’s Americanah. He joins leads Lupita Nyong’o, Zackary Momoh and Uzo Aduba.
The series is based on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s best-selling novel of the same name. It will be a 10-episode limited series. Danai Gurira is the showrunner and also wrote the pilot.
Americanah tells the story of Ifemelu (Nyong’o), a young, beautiful, self-assured woman raised in Nigeria, who as a teenager falls in love with her classmate Obinze (Momoh). Living in a military-ruled country, they each depart for the west, with Ifemelu heading for America, where, despite her academic success, she is forced to grapple for the first time with what it means to be Black. Quiet, thoughtful Obinze had hoped to join her, but with post-9/11 America closed to him, he instead plunges into a dangerous undocumented life in London. A highly lauded tale that has become a leader in the cultural conversation, Americanah is an incredible exploration of the human experience that crosses three continents to give an empathetic, compelling view of the complex realities of race, politics, immigration and identity.
Hawkins will play Blaine, “Ifemelu’s present-day boyfriend and Yale Professor, who is madly in love with her. Deeply passionate about social injustices, he tutors at-risk youth and organizes protests for a wrongly accused Black Yale security guard.”
Gurira, Nyong’o and Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment are among the producers.
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