{"id":16908,"date":"2022-09-08T00:22:51","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T22:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=16908"},"modified":"2022-09-08T00:22:53","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T22:22:53","slug":"nigerian-wunmi-mosaku-on-her-award-winning-role-in-hbo-crime-drama-we-own-this-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2022\/09\/08\/nigerian-wunmi-mosaku-on-her-award-winning-role-in-hbo-crime-drama-we-own-this-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Wunmi Mosaku on her award-winning role in HBO crime drama We Own This City"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nigerian Wunmi Mosaku won Outstanding Actress in a Limited Series at the 2022 Black Reel Awards for her role as <\/em>Nicole Steele in We Own This City, <\/em>which is now available to binge on Showmax. The HBO crime drama was also nominated for Outstanding Limited Series, Directing (Reinaldo Marcus Green of King Richard <\/em>fame)<\/em>, Writing (for D. Watkins), and Supporting Actor (Jamie Hector from The Wire<\/em> and Bosch<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n

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According to a 2021 BBC Culture Critics\u2019 poll, HBO\u2019s hit 2000s crime drama series The Wire<\/em> is still \u201cthe greatest TV series of the 21st Century\u201d. With We Own This City<\/em>, The Wire<\/em>\u2019s creator, Emmy winner David Simon, returns to Baltimore for the first time, to chronicle a real-life scandal that broke in 2017: the story of a city held to ransom by its own police force when the policies of drug prohibition and mass arrest were championed at the expense of meaningful police work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simon and co-creator George Pelecanos (The Wire<\/em>, The Deuce<\/em>) adapted the six-part series from the non-fiction book We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption<\/em> by Baltimore crime reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist Justin Fenton, about the corrupt Gun Trace Task Force. \u201cThis is not just make-believe,\u201d says Green. \u201cEvery story in this series was based on some real-life, true event\u2026 It feels authentic because it is.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wherever possible, filming took place in the actual locations where the events happened, drawing extensively on the evidence and court documents relating to each incident to recreate it in detail. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was quite emotional to be hearing the stories from passersby telling us what it felt like, and what hasn\u2019t changed, and what needs to change,\u201d says Mosaku, who won a BAFTA for Damilola, Our Loved Boy<\/em> and a British Independent Film Award for His House<\/em>; was nominated for Critics Choice, Critics Choice Super and Screen Actors Guild awards for Lovecraft Country; <\/em>and has acted in Emmy-nominated shows like Loki<\/em>, Luther<\/em> and The End of The F***king World<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In We Own This City<\/em>, Mosaku\u2019s character, Nicole Steele, is one of the few who is not based on any one real-life individual, but rather represents a number of people in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. \u201cI felt like Nicole while I was reading the scripts,\u201d Mosaku told The Guardian<\/em>. \u201cI was like, \u2018How did this happen?!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt feels so necessary to tell this story right now,\u201d Mosaku said on the We Own This City Podcast<\/em>. \u201cThere\u2019s a rot in the system that a lot of people are shouting about, but a lot of people are deaf to.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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