‘Black Mirror’ Star Anjana Vasan Talks ‘Demon 79,’ Working With Charlie Brooker and Color Blind Casting
variety.comNaman Ramachandran Stage, television and film star Anjana Vasan’s latest role is the lead in the “Demon 79” episode in Season 6 of Charlie Brooker’s hit Netflix series “Black Mirror.” Set in northern England, 1979, Vasan plays a meek sales assistant who is told she must commit terrible acts to prevent disaster in the episode written by Brooker and Bisha K.
Ali (“Ms. Marvel”) and directed by Toby Haynes (“Andor”). Paapa Essiedu (“Gangs of London”) has a pivotal role in the episode. “Every episode of ‘Black Mirror’ is different but this one felt just distinctly like trying to do something different,” Vasan told Variety. “And when I read it, I was genuinely surprised.
I didn’t know where the story was going to go. And I thought the dynamic between Paapa’s character and myself was so interesting and so surprising.
I just wanted to be a part of that world, I wanted to go into 1979 and just explore her journey.” Vasan plays Nida, a character who is of Asian origin.
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