Emmy winner Glynn Turman (“Women of the Movement”) has joined Apple TV+’s Huey P. Newton limited series “The Big Cigar” as a recurring guest star, reports Deadline.
He’ll be part of an ensemble led by André Holland, which also includes Alessandro Nivola, Tiffany Boone, PJ Byrne, Marc Menchaca, Jordane Christie, Moses Ingram and Olli Haaskivi. Turman is set for the role of Huey’s ailing father, Walter.
He’s a two-time Emmy nominee who won in 2008 for a guest role on HBO’s “In Treatment,” pulling his second nom in 2019 for a guest part on ABC’s “How to Get Away with Murder.” Turman has most recently been seen on such series as “Women of the Movement,” “Fargo,” and “Mr. Mercedes,” and in films like “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and “The Way Back.”
About ‘The Big Cigar’
The Big Cigar” is a six-episode limited series executive produced and written by Jim Hecht (“Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty”), and executive produced and showrun by NAACP Image Award winner Janine Sherman Barrois (“Claws,” “The Kings of Napa”).
Holland (“The Eddy,” “Moonlight”) will star as Black Panther leader Huey P. Newton. Christie will play Newton’s friend and Black Panther Party co-founder, Bobby Seale, who bonded with Newton over repeated incarcerations and infiltration by the FBI before deciding to leave the Party.
Here’s how the limited series is described: The Big Cigar” tells the extraordinary, hilarious, almost-too-good-to-be-true story of how Newton relied on his best friend, Bert Schneider, the Hollywood producer behind “Easy Rider,” to elude a nationwide manhunt and escape to Cuba while being pursued into exile by the FBI.
Don Cheadle (the Avengers movies, “No Sudden Move,” “Black Monday,” “House of Lies”) is on board to direct and executive produce the first two episodes. The limited series is based on the eponymous magazine article from Joshuah Bearman (“Argo”), who will also serve as executive producer.
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