Mangrove star Nathaniel Martello-White has spoken of his surprise that Steve McQueen‘s Small Axe series only managed to pick up one Emmy nomination.“It was disappointing,” he said during an interview with NME.“It’s hard, isn’t it? Awards are great and awards help, but I try not to get too caught up in that because sometimes things win and you’re like ‘How did that win? This other movie was way better!’”The 38-year-old British actor starred opposite Letitia Wright and Shaun Parkes in Mangrove – the true story of the arrest and trial of the Mangrove Nine, a group of Black activists who made legal history in the ’70s by exposing the reality of police racism.Telling the story of Frank Crichlow – a Trinidadian immigrant who opened the Mangrove
