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The present’s first season is predicated on the favored Gimlet Media podcast of the identical title. Little is understood about the place the plot will go in season two, however based on Deadline, Monáe will play a lady who wakes up in a canoe, with no reminiscence of who she is or how she ended up there. It’s unclear who else will keep on from the season one forged, however, per Deadline, Stephan James, Bobby Cannavale, and Hong Chau appear poised to return.
Homecoming is Monáe’s first main main function on a TV collection. In the previous couple of years, the Grammy-nominated singer has made a robust pivot into performing, touchdown again to again roles in high-profile movies like Moonlight and Hidden Figures. She additionally had a standout function in an episode of Amazon’s sci-fi anthology collection Electrical Desires, taking part in an android named Alice—a intelligent little bit of casting, since a lot of Monáe’s musical oeuvre revolves round androids and sci-fi imagery. She’s additionally acquired a busy slate developing, together with a voice function in Disney’s Woman and the Tramp and a co-starring function within the upcoming Harriet Tubman biopic Harriet.
Roberts, in the meantime, solely has one mission developing, the dramatic thriller Little Bee, directed by Ritesh Batra (Our Souls at Night time). Homecoming was an enormous shift for the old fashioned film star, her first main leap into the TV world (excluding one-off appearances in exhibits like Mates and Regulation and Order). The actress has spoken warmly of the expertise, praising Esmail for making a cinematic collection.
“Actually, I had a type of movie expertise, as a result of we shot it like a movie,” Roberts mentioned at an FYC occasion in Might. “We ended up filming it by location and never episode. It’s the enjoyment and purpose why I wished Sam to direct all of the episodes, as a result of I feel there must be one captain and one voice and imaginative and prescient.”
