Starz, via EW, has released the first look at singer and Academy Award nominee Mary J. Blige (Mudbound) in Power Book II: Ghost.
Blige will play Monet, a very successful woman in Queens who runs her business “with an iron fist,” explains executive producer Courtney A. Kemp. LaToya Tonodeo has joined the show, playing Monet’s daughter Diana. Method Man was previously announced to be playing ambitious and savvy attorney Davis Maclean.
In speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Series creator Courtney A. Kemp said “Power obviously is a masculine show but has very strong female characters. For Mary’s character, we use all the power and presence of the actress to communicate how this is a woman who is remarkable and unique in her abilities. She’s as smart, savvy, and strategic as Ghost ever was, but her learning doesn’t come from books. We always said Ghost was a bookish kid who read all the time. This woman’s acumen comes from the streets.”
The spinoff is anticipated to follow the events of the sixth and final season of the Kemp and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson executive produced mothershow. As the question of who shot Omari Hardwick’s lead of Ghost bedevils Power itself, the show will reveal all and conclude on February 9, the same day as the 92nd Academy Awards.
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