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Netflix today released first look photos from the upcoming biopic, Rustin, starring Tony Award nominee and Emmy Award winner Colman Domingo (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Euphoria) as American civil rights activist Bayard Rustin. The film will premiere on the streaming platform November 17th.
Directed by George C. Wolfe (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom), Rustin‘s cast also includes:
Chris Rock (Spiral, Fargo), Glynn Turman (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Super 8), Aml Ameen (The Porter, The Maze Runner), Gus Halper (Dickinson, Holler), CCH Pounder (NCIS: New Orleans, The Shield), Da’Vine Joy Randolph (The Idol, Only Murders in the Building), Johnny Ramey (Breaking Girl Code), Michael Potts (The First Lady, True Detective), Lilli Kay (Your Honor, Yellowstone), Jordan-Amanda Hall (Wu-Tang: An American Saga), Jakeem Powell (Gimme a Break), Grantham Coleman (Black Bear), Jamilah Rosemond (The Best Man: The Final Chapters), Jules Latimer (Fire Country), Maxwell Whittington-Cooper (Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies), Frank Harts (Prodigal Son), Kevin Mambo (Guiding Light, Luke Cage), Carra Patterson (Straight Outta Compton), Bill Irwin (Legion, Rachel Getting Married), Cotter Smith (Mindhunter, The Americans), Adrienne Warren (The Woman King, Women of the Movement), with Jeffrey Wright (Asteroid City, Westworld) and Audra McDonald (Private Practice, The Good Fight).
Synopsis
The architect of 1963’s momentous March on Washington, Bayard Rustin was one of the greatest activists and organisers the world has ever known. He challenged authority, never apologised for who he was, what he believed, or who he desired. And he did not back down. He made history, and in turn, he was forgotten. Directed by DGA Award and five-time Tony Award winner George C. Wolfe and starring Emmy Award winner Colman Domingo, Rustin shines a long overdue spotlight on the extraordinary man who, alongside giants like the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., Adam Clayton Powell Jr., and Ella Baker, dared to imagine a different world, and inspired a movement in a march toward freedom.
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