Exclusive: Nicole Beharie on playing a pregnant woman on Amazon Prime Series SOLOS

Coming out this week on Amazon Prime Video is the highly anticipated Amazon Original anthology series Solos, created by David Weil and starring Academy Award-winning actors Morgan Freeman, Anne Hathaway and Helen Mirren, Emmy Award-winning actor Uzo Aduba, Nicole Beharie, Anthony Mackie, Dan Stevens, and Constance Wu.

The seven-part anthology series explores the strange, beautiful, heart-breaking, hilarious, wondrous truths of what it means to be human. The series spans our present and future and illuminates that even during our most isolated moments we are all connected through the human experience.

Pregnant and living alone in the woods, Beharie's character's home birth becomes marred by unforeseen difficulties—and abnormalities involving her child. "The piece was written by Stacy Osei-Kuffour, a Black woman, starring Nicole Beharie, a Black woman, and it was so important to me that it was realized on screen by a Black woman as well," notes the creator. Director Tiffany Johnson was that last piece to that puzzle, and delivered what he sees as "this great sort of modern Hitchcockian, futuristic tale.” - EW

Although she’s played a mom on screen before with roles inMonsters and Men and more recently Miss Juneteenth, this is the first time she’s played a character ready to give birth. Her episode also plays like a Twilight Zone episode given the circumstances of her role.

In speaking with BlackFilmandTV.com’s Wilson Morales, Beharie goes over her role.