Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Kate Beckinsale join biopic on Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Damson Idris, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Kate Beckinsale to Lead Fascinating Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Biopic https://t.co/cNDZm1iehe http://pic.twitter.com/ewqE1C7krf

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• Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje is an actor who is best known for playing Adebisi on Oz
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• Has been working on a screenplay based on his youth growing up in Britain    
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• The film is called Farming and is based off of the fact that young Nigerian children were "farmed" out to white Brits in the '60s to the '80s in the hopes that they would get a better life. Because these were not official adoptions many children lost contact with their parents
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• Akinnuoye-Agbaje will direct from his own screenplay. Newcomer Damson Idris will play the character based on Akinnuoye-Agbaje who was neglected and joined his local skinhead gang. Beckinsale will play his neglectful foster mother and Mbatha-Raw will play the teacher who helped to change his life.
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!!! I've been hearing about this for years I'm so glad it's finally being made!

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