Adepero Oduye In Talks To Join 12 Years As A Slave

Pariah’s Adepero Oduye In Talks To Join 12 Years As A SlavePosted by Wilson Morales

April 17, 2012

According to The Playlist, Pariah’s actress Adepero Oduye will star opposite Michael Fassbender, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Brad Pitt in Twelve Years A Slave, the next feature from Shame and Hunger director Steve McQueen. It tells the true story of a free black man (Ejiofor) who winds up back in slavery in Louisiana, at a plantation owned by Fassbender’s character. In the script the man’s wife hires a lawyer (Pitt) to fight for her husband’s freedom, and it seems safe to assume Oduye will be taking on that role.

In 2011, Oduye gave an incredible breakthrough performance in Dee Rees‘ Pariah that at the recent Golden Globes Awards, Meryl Streep mentioned her name in her speech as she won for Best Actress for her role in The Iron Lady. Oduye was also featured in this year’s Vanity Fair’s Hollywood Issue.

Oduye will also be seen in an updated, contemporary TV adaptation of 1989’s Steel Magnolias, joining Queen Latifah, Alfre Woodard, Phylicia Rashad, Jill Scott, Adepero Oduye and Rashad’s daughter, Condola Rashad.