Masali Baduza plays Sephy Hadley opposite Jack Rowan as Callum McGregor in the TV adaptation of Malorie Blackman’s book Noughts and Crosses
The drama, based on her 2001 book of the same name, is set in an alternate universe where affluent black people, known as Crosses, rule over an underclass of white people, known as Noughts. Speaking at the show’s premiere in Brixton, she said: ‘One production lunch I went to they said they were very keen to do it but would I mind if I made the Crosses Asian, rather than black, and I said, “Why?”, and they said, “We just feel we’d reach a bigger audience that way.”‘And I thought, “Kind of miss the point, much?”….Hard pass, crazy hard pass.’
There’s also a special guest appearance from rapper Stormzy as a newspaper editor, a part which was created specifically for him.He told Metro.co.uk: ‘He’s like one of us, he’s similar age to us. We have a huge respect for him.supports HTML5 video
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