Exclusive: Supacell interviews with Rapman, Tosin Cole, Adelayo Adedayo, Josh Tedeku, Nadine Mills, & Calvin Demba
Coming to Netflix on June 27 is the upcoming series Supacell, which revolves around a group of young Black South Londoners who develop superpowers. Rapman (Blue Story) serves as its Showrunner, Creator and Lead Director. Sebastian Thiel is also a director on the project.
SUPACELL is about a group of five ordinary people who unexpectedly develop superpowers. They have little in common except for one thing: they are all Black South Londoners. It is down to one man, Michael Lasaki, to bring them all together in order to save the woman he loves.
The series’ cast includes Tosin Cole (61st, Street, Till, Ear for Eye) as Michael, Nadine Mills (Sliced and The Weekend) as Sabrina, Eric Kofi Abrefa (Blue Story, BMF) as Andre, Calvin Demba (The Rig, Life, Micky and the Bear) as Rodney, Josh Tedeku (Moonhaven, A Town Called Malice) as Tazer, Adelayo Adedayo (The Responder, Timewasters) as Dionne, Rayxia Ojo (Harry Potter and The Cursed Child - West End Production, Call The Midwife) as Sharleen, Giacomo Mancini (Top Boy, Orthodox) as Spud and Eddie Marsan (Ray Donovan and Deadpool 2) will play Ray
Joanna Crow is series producer and associate producers include Sheila Nortley, who serves as block 2 producer and associate producer and Henrietta Lee, who is an associate producer for New Wave.
Geraldine Hawkins is co-producer and executive producers are Rapman, Mouktar Mohammed for New Wave, Anna Ferguson and Steve Searle for Netflix.