Resurrection’s Nadej K Bailey added to MLK biopic ‘Selma’Posted by Wilson Morales
June 13, 2014
With the cast of Ava DuVernay’s MLK biopic ‘Selma’ increasing with the recent additions of Oprah Winfrey, Tim Roth, Stan Houston, and Alessandro Nivola, Blackfilm.com has learned that Resurrection’s Nadej K. Bailey has also landed a part in the film.
“SELMA” is the story of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s historic struggle to secure voting rights for all people – a dangerous and terrifying campaign that culminated with the epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, and led to President Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Paramount is handling the film’s domestic distribution, Pathé will distribute in the UK and France and Pathé International will handle sales to the rest of the world.
The film stars David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King Jr., Carmen Ejogo as his wife Coretta Scott King, Tom Wilkinson as President Lyndon B. Johnson, Short Term 12′s Keith Stanfield as Jimmie Lee Jackson, Lorraine Toussaint as civil rights activist Amelia Boynton (Robinson), eight-time Grammy nominee artist Ledisi as the legendary gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, Tessa Thompson as Diane Nash, Colman Domingo playing the Reverend Ralph Abernathy, Andre Holland as politician Andrew Young, Omar J. Dorsey as James Orange, Common as James Bevel, The Closer’s Corey Reynolds as C. T. Vivian, Tim Roth as George Wallace; Cuba Gooding Jr. as Fred Gray, Wendell Pierce as Rev. Hosea Williams, Nigel Thatch as Malcolm X, Stan Houston as Sheriff Jim Clark, and Oprah Winfrey as Annie Lee Cooper.
Bailey will play one of the four girls who died in the Selma bombing. “The 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed on Sunday, September 15, 1963 as an act of white supremacist terrorism. The church was used as a meeting-place for civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph David Abernathy and Fred Shuttlesworth.The explosion at the African-American church, which killed four girls (Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson and Denise McNair), marked a turning point in the United States 1960s Civil Rights Movement and contributed to support for passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.” – wikipedia
The Atlanta native currently has a recurring role as Jenny Thompson on ABC’s supernatural drama Resurrection, which was renewed for a second season. Her past television projects were BET Being Mary Jane and NBC’S Revolution.
Currently in production, the screenplay was written by Paul Webb. Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner will produce through their Plan B banner, with Christian Colson through his Cloud Eight Films, and Oprah Winfrey through her Harpo Films. Ava DuVernay, Paul Garnes, Cameron McCracken and Nan Morales are executive producing.
