Ava DuVernay’s ‘Caste’ Adds Audra McDonald & Myles Frost
deadline.comSix-time Tony winner, Audra McDonald, and Best Actor in a Musical, Myles Frost, have joined the cast of Oscar nominee Ava DuVernay’s latest film inspired by Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of our Discontents.
The two join previously announced cast Oscar nominee Aunjanue Ellis in the lead role, alongside Niecy Nash, Vera Farmiga, Nick Offerman, Connie Nielsen, Jon Bernthal and Jasmine Cephas-Jones.
Written and directed by DuVernay, she is producing alongside veteran collaborator Paul Garnes (Selma, Middle of Nowhere) of ARRAY Filmworks.
A bestseller and shortlisted for several awards, Wilkerson’s Caste examines racism in America through the prism of social, economic and cultural delineation and “pillars” of exclusion.
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