David Oyelowo

David Oyelowo will portray a legendary Wild West law man in a new 1883 and Yellowstone spinoff titled 1883: The Bass Reeves Story, Paramount+ announced this week. The studio included the news in a much-celebrated press release announcing the participation of Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren in yet another spinoff called 1932. Though the timelines and stories will not necessarily overlap, all of the shows in creator Taylor Sheridan’s western universe — including The Bass Reeves Story — will share the same rugged sensibility and dramatic plot lines that fans love about Yellowstone.

When Taylor Sheridan announced the plethora of shows he plans to release in the near future, he mentioned one about Bass Reeves, a show about a legendary African American lawman in the 19th century. Now, according to Deadline, the show will be a Yellowstone spinoff from the prequel 1883, titled...

David Oyelowo's Yellowstone spinoff will profile a legendary lawman of the Wild West. Oyelowo is set to star in the 1883 spinoff 1883: The Bass Reeves Story, announced Paramount+ on May 17. The news was revealed in a press release about Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren joining the cast of 1932, a prequel to Yellowstone. Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan is behind all Yellowstone shows.

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The 'Selma' actor penned an op-ed breaking down the feelings and fears he's "still processing" in the wake of the altercation between Will Smith and Chris Rock at the Academy Awards. Like many who were in the room during that now-infamous tense exchange between Will Smith and Chris Rock during...

David Oyelowo has opened up about Will Smith’s slap at the 2022 Oscars, saying he fears it could impact Hollywood’s “ongoing push for inclusion”.The Emmy nominated actor has witnessed first-hand many dramatic Oscar scenes, including Selma’s snub for Best Actor and Best Director, which jumpstarted the #OscarsSoWhite trend, and the accidental announcement of La La Land as Best Picture in 2017, for which his reaction went viral. However, the events that transpired after Chris Rock jokingly likened Jada Pinkett Smith to “GI Jane,” have left Oyelowo fearful of the negative effect it could have on the diversity within the...

I’ve never heard or used the word “processing” more than I have in the days since these last Oscars. Having been in the room where it happened, I’ve been beset by questions from journalists, friends, family members and people I haven’t heard from in a long time. My answer has remained the same as I’ve also heard from others. “I’m still processing what just happened.” My experiences of attending the Oscars over the last few years have been steeped in unexpected drama and a constant intersection of public opinion, politics and race. In 2015, I had a front-row seat to the...

Click here to read the full article. The repercussions of Best Actor winner Will Smith attacking presenter Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars are still being felt by Hollywood, especially Black stars. Emmy nominee David Oyelowo published a guest column for The Hollywood Reporter detailing the ripple effect of the now-infamous Oscars slap. Oyelowo has been a bystander to a number of dramatic episodes at the Oscars, from “Selma” being snubbed for Best Actor and Best Director igniting #OscarsSoWhite in 2015 to his viral reaction to “La La Land” being mistakenly announced Best Picture. “But like most of us, nothing could have...

In his feature debut, Mo McRae directs and produces a thrilling and chaotic film called A Lot of Nothing. To anyone in the world, James (Y'lan Noel) and Vanessa (Cleopatra Coleman) would seem like the picture of a perfectly happy couple. Married, successful in their careers, and living comfortably, they seem to be people to look up to. But when a tragedy is reported in a news, a child is killed by a cop, and they find out the cop is their next-door neighbor (Justin Hartley), their lives soon take a sharp turn.

From playing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma to portraying a lonely veteran on the brink of a breakdown in Nightingale, throughout his 20-plus-year career, David Oyelowo has inhabited a range of characters. But in the new HBO Max limited series The Girl Before, the Nigerian Brit steps into something new: the villain.

As a striking look at the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the breakout film of director Ava DuVernay, Selma was a lightning rod in the #OscarsSoWhite movement, which indicted the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for continually ignoring Black excellence in cinema. But David Oyelowo,...

David Oyelowo isn’t eager to inhabit a minimalist home like his character from “The Girl Before.” “It would probably be fun for a weekend as a novelty, but this is not the place for me,” he says. “If Edward Monkford were my landlord, I think he would murder me.”