sponsored by PrimeVideo | The cast behind Academy Award-winning director Barry Jenkins’ TheUndergroundRailroad propel the series full steam ahead with their performances.
The heartbeat of the ensemble propels “The Underground Railroad,” Academy Award-winning director Barry Jenkins’ sumptuous 10-episode Amazon Prime Video series set in the pre-Civil War America.
The trains are metaphors for progress, passage and power. As Cora travels from state to state, episode by episode, the visual and aural aesthetics of the series change to mirror her states of mind. South African newcomer Thuso Mbedu plays Cora, an outcast even among the enslaved because she was abandoned by her escaped mother, Mabel .“Through the character of Cora, I felt seen,” says Mbedu. “There were moments in my life where it hurt to hope, and so no hope was better than false hope.
“Caesar finds moments of peace in a place where peace is nonexistent,” says Pierre, of escaping through reading. He reads “Gulliver’s Travels” to Cora, foreshadowing her adventures to come. “I always think stories are more interesting if we understand where the bad people are coming from,” says Edgerton. “It’s really about getting an audience to understand what makes someone like Ridgeway tick.”Chase Dillon delivers a precocious performance as Homer, Ridgeway’s surrogate son and sidekick. Homer uses the bounty hunter’s keys to lock his own shackles at night. His job is to catch other Black people—and he’s freakishly good at it.
Co-star Mbedu says sometimes she had to put distance between herself and Dillon, with whom she had become close, for the sake of their characters.“It was really beautiful seeing him grow in the process,” says Jenkins. Royal takes Cora to a colony of Blacks who are legally — and economically — free. While she experiences joy there, her life has been a series of things taken from her and she anxiously waits for the other shoe to drop, Harper explains.
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