Chiwetel Ejiofor is having a big year. He’s starring in the highly-anticipated film adaptation of 12 Years a Slave on the big screen and Starz’s miniseries Dancing on the Edge on the small screen in October. Both films are set in the past with about 100 years between each time period, but racism is still a driving force behind the plots of each. Though Ejiofor’s characters, a freed Black man abducted into slavery in 12 Years and a Black jazz musician caught up in a murder plot in 1930s London in Dancing, are worlds apart, he plays them with an acting prowess that is sure to delight and entertain, demonstrating his versatility in the process.
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Ejiofor has been one to watch, for me, since Children of Men, and it’s about time he gets to star in multiple projects at once. Do you plan to see 12 Years a Slave and Dancing on the Edge in October?
