Uzo Aduba Lands the Lead Role in a Race Drama Based on Roots

Showing Roots will film in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and the storyline is based around Alex Haley’s classic slavery saga Roots. According to Deadline:

Aduba and Grace will play two denizens of a local beauty parlor who are inspired by the Alex Haley adaptation to integrate their community, only to see pent-up racial tensions erupt in the process.

It’s a feature that’s clearly right on time. One of the show’s executive producers, Michael Mailer, says, “I find that the subject matter has only gotten more relevant in this country. It’s a movie that deals with racial healing.”

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