Oxfordshire: Hollywood Actress Takes on 'Emotional' Part in New Slavery Thriller

Oxfordshire: Hollywood actress takes on 'emotional' part in new slavery thriller

A supernatural thriller starring an Oxfordshire-born Hollywood actress is reimagining the conversation around reparations and colonialism.

Possession writer talks supernatural thriller’s connection to historical slavery: "I’m not an activist, I’m a writer”

This article first appeared in Radio Times magazine.Karla Crome is as fascinated today with the question that’s central to Possession as she was when she was approached seven years ago by TV producer Jenny Van Der Lande to write a drama around it.“If there was, by some sort of magic, a man who came here and told me that he was enslaved by my ancestors and he said, ‘I would therefore like all of your wealth,’ what would I do?”After Crome repeats …

Official trailer: Gugu Mbatha-Raw stars in Sky Original supernatural thriller Possession

Sky has released the official trailer for the five-part limited event series Possession, formerly known as Inheritance. Created and written by Karla Crome ( Something Very Bad is Going to Happen ) and directed by Storm Saulter ( Better Mus' Come, Sprinter ), the supernatural thriller is set between Bristol and Jamaica and stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw ( Loki, Surface ), Jonny Lee Miller ( The Crown, Elementary ), Sheldon Shepherd ( Bob Marley: One Love,…