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EXCLUSIVE: Netflix’s Rapman-created Supacell series, about a group of regular people who gain superpowers, is up, up and away with Tosin Cole (61st Street) signed on to play lead character Michael Lasaki. Filming begins in South London on Monday.
Speaking exclusively to Deadline, Blue Story creator Rapman AKA Andrew Onwabolu said Cole’s Michael is a “van driver, an everyday working man, who’s deep in love” with Dionne, played by Adelayo Adedayo (The Responder).
The cast also includes Nadine Mills (The Weekend), Eric Kofi Abrefa (Blue Story, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom), Calvin Demba (The Rig), Josh Tedeku (Moonhaven), Rayxia Ojo (Call The Midwife) and Giacomo Mancini (Top Boy).
Commissioned in 2021, the six-part superhero show sees a certain number of Black people in South London develop superpowers. Rapman is showrunner and lead director and Sebastian Thiel (Dreaming Whilst Black) will direct three of the episodes.
Cole’s casting comes at a time when he has plenty of heat thanks to roles in Doctor Who and AMC’s 61st Street, created by British screenwriter Peter Moffat. Cole will also be seen portraying civil rights hero Medgar Evers in director Chinonye Chukwu’s feature Till. Barbara Broccoli is a producer of Till and she also executive produced the screen adaptation of Debbie Tucker Green’s play Ear for Eye, in which Cole appeared.
Rapman came up with the idea for Supacell before Blue Story was released in 2019. A year later he began developing and writing episodes after a meeting with Anne Mensah, Netflix’s EMEA/UK scripted content chief.
Although he’s a longtime fan of the Marvel and DC superhero genre, he figured that “if I got powers, my first thing wouldn’t be to go and buy a spandex outfit.”
“I was thinking ‘What
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