Yvonne Orji’s subsequent challenge is on the best way. The actress and comic is growing the Yaa Gyasi novel “Transcendent Kingdom” beneath her first-look take care of Sony Photos Tv.
As Deadline stories, the novel by Gyasi follows Gifty, “a neuroscientist in coaching finding out the habits patterns in mice because it pertains to despair and habit.” The novel switches forwards and backwards between her upbringing as a first-generation Ghanaian in rural Alabama and her current life within the Bay Space, as she embarks on “a methodical and a non secular journey to make sense of the struggling” she has witnessed.
“Whilst she turns to the exhausting sciences to unlock the thriller of her household’s loss,” the synopsis concludes, she’s craving for “sides of her childhood religion and grappling with the evangelical church by which she was raised, whose promise of salvation stays as tantalizing as it’s elusive.”
Orji, finest recognized for portraying Molly in Issa Rae’s hit collection “Insecure,” is an Emmy-nominated actress, comic and producer. Exterior of “Insecure,” she has introduced a number of comedy specials to HBO and has starred in movies comparable to “The Blackening” and “Trip Associates” and its sequel, “Trip Associates 2.”
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Orji signed her first-look take care of Sony Photos Tv final yr, which is able to see her growing scripted drama and comedy collection for cable and streaming. “I’m so excited to be partnering with Sony,” Orji stated in an announcement obtained by Deadline on the time. “From the primary assembly with Katherine Pope and the remainder of her superb government workforce, I knew this was the fitting residence for me. They received my imaginative and prescient instantly and had been genuinely enthusiastic in regards to the tales I wished to inform that bridge the diaspora.”
