Deadline is exclusively reporting that a number of new cast members have boarded Ava DuVernay’s adaption of DMZ for HBO Max.
Rutina Wesley (Queen Sugar), Mamie Gummer (True Detective), Nora Dunn (The Big Leap) and Henry G. Sanders (Queen Sugar) are among nine new cast members to join the HBO Max limited series based on the DC comic series from Ava DuVernay and Roberto Patino, and Warner Bros. Television.
Also joining stars Rosario Dawson and Benjamin Bratt are Venus Ariel (NCIS: New Orleans), Jade Wu (Marvel’s Luke Cage), Rey Gallegos (Animal Kingdom), Agam Darshi (Funny Boy) and Juani Feliz(upcoming Harlem).
Joining the creative team are filmmaker Ernest Dickerson (Juice, Bosch) and Emmy winner Carly Wray (Watchmen, Westworld).
Ariel will play the series regular role of Nico, a foul-mouthed scavenger with a hankering for mischief.
Wesley will play Athena, a calculating operative for the separatist Free States of America — and the most effective power broker in the DMZ that no one there has heard of.
Dunn will portray Oona, a powerful fixture of near-mythical stature who oversees an all-female commune, along with the most valuable currency in all the DMZ: the water supply.
Wu is Susie, whose revolutionary past has shown her that the best of humanity can be discovered at its worst moments.
Gallegos will play Cesar, a ruthless and devoted consigliere who’ll stop at nothing to secure his gang’s authority in the DMZ.
Gummer will portray Rose, a jaded medic who tirelessly cares for the ill and injured of this disenfranchised population, regardless of the cost.
Darshi is Franklin, one of the only smugglers who can get someone in or out of the DMZ.
Feliz will play Carmen, the fearless and fiery partner to the biggest bad in the DMZ, and a critical source of power and community in her native Spanish Harlem.
Sanders is Cedric, a straight-shooting citizen of the DMZ whose only care in the world is protecting his grandson.
They join previously announced cast members Hoon Lee, Jordan Preston Carter and Freddy Miyares.
No news yet on when DMZ will premiere on the Warner Media streaming service.
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