Exclusive: Kindred Cast Interviews
Currently airing on FX is Kindred, which is based on Octavia E. Butler’s celebrated and critically acclaimed novel.
The cast includes Mallori Johnson as “Dana James,” Micah Stock as “Kevin Franklin,” Ryan Kwanten as “Thomas Weylin,” Gayle Rankin as “Margaret Weylin,” Austin Smith as “Luke,” David Alexander Kaplan as “Rufus Weylin,” Sophina Brown as “Sarah” and Sheria Irving as “Olivia.”
The series adapted for the screen by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Watchmen) is based on Octavia E. Butler’s acclaimed 1979 sci-fi novel. It follows Dana (Johnson), a young Black woman and aspiring writer who has uprooted her life of familial obligation and relocated to Los Angeles, ready to claim a future that, for once, feels all her own. But, before she can get settled into her new home, she finds herself being violently pulled back and forth in time to a 19th century plantation with which she and her family are surprisingly and intimately linked. An interracial romance threads through her past and present, and the clock is ticking as she struggles to confront the secrets she never knew ran through her blood.
FX Productions is producing the eight-episode series, with Jacobs-Jenkins serving as showrunner and exec producing alongside Courtney Lee-Mitchell, Darren Aronofsky for Protozoa Pictures, Ari Handel, Joe Weisberg, Joel Fields, Ernestine Walker and Merrilee Heifetz. Zola filmmaker Janicza Bravo is helming and exec producing the pilot.
Blackfilmandtv.com's Wilson Morales talks to cast members Mallori Johnson, Micah Stock, Ryan Kwanten, Gayle Rankin, Sheria Irving, Sophina Brown, & Austin Smith and executive producer/ showrunner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins about FX's Kindred