The cast has been chosen for the series adaptation of Daveed Digg’s and Rafael Casal’s 2018 film Blindspotting. Amongst the cast for the half-hour dramedy are Diggs, Casal reprising his character Miles, Benjamin Earl Turner, Atticus Woodward and Jaylen Barron from Shameless, Candace Nicholas-Lippman from Good Trouble, Justin Chu Carry, and Jasmine Cephas-Jones. The eight-part series is being produced by Lionsgate Television with Cephas-Jones serving as producer and Casal as showrunner. Jess Wu Calder and Keith Calder are executive producing for Snoot Entertainment alongside Barnyard Projects’ Casal, Diggs, Emily Gerson Saines, Ken Lee, and Tim Palen. Kathryn Tyus-Adair will oversee for Starz with Maggie Leung overseeing for Lionsgate.
In Blindspotting, Cephas-Jones (who also starred in the film) plays Ashley, a middle class mother who must navigate a chaotic and humorous existential crisis after Miles (Casal), the father of her child and partner of 12 years, is incarcerated and is then forced to move in with Miles’ mother and half-sister.
Turner, who is also writing for the series, plays the newly released and house arrested Earl, who just wants to kill time and lay low. Woodward plays, Sean, Ashley and Miles’ sweet, smart and energetic son, Barron plays Trish, Miles’ wild younger half-sister, and Nicholas-Lippman plays, Janelle, Ashley’s close friend who has just returned to the neighborhood in Oakland after spending many years in Bali.
In a Deadline article, Diggs was quoted saying “Figuring out a way to bring The Bay to life in a half-hour comedy space has been so rewarding. Ultimately, this is a story about how a broken prison system affects all of us and, like the film, we’re using comedy to talk about very real systemic effects in the country with the largest prison population in the world.”
Daveed Diggs was an original cast member of Lin Manuel-Miranda’s award winning musical, Hamilton. The actor won TONY and Grammy awards for his roles as Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson. He wrote, produced, and starred in the original Blindspotting film and also starred in the films Wonder and Velvet Buzzsaw. Currently, the actor can be seen on TNT’s Snowpiercer.
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