Saidah Ekulona (Better Call Saul) is set for a recurring role opposite Chanté Adams on Amazon’s A League of Their Own reboot series.
The hourlong series, from co-creators Abbi Jacobson and Will Graham and Sony Pictures TV, is described as a fresh approach to Penny Marshall’s 1992 Columbia Pictures movie of the same name about the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
The reboot will follow new characters who embody the spirit of a generation of women who dreamed to play professional baseball.
Ekulona will play Toni Chapman, Maxine (Chante Adams)’s mother, a successful entrepreneur and the unofficial mayor of the small but growing black community in Rockford, Illinois.
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