‘The Big Cigar’: Jordane Christie Joins Apple TV+’s Huey P. Newton Series As Recurring
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Jordane Christie (Why Women Kill) has signed on for a recurring role in Apple TV+’s limited series The Big Cigar.
He joins an ensemble led by André Holland, which also includes Alessandro Nivola, Tiffany Boone, PJ Byrne, Marc Menchaca and Moses Ingram, as previously announced.
The six-episode series based on the eponymous Playboy magazine article by Joshuah Bearman (Argo) tells the extraordinary, hilarious, almost-too-good-to-be-true story of how Black Panther leader Huey P.
Newton (Holland) relied on his best friend, Bert Schneider (Nivola)—the Hollywood producer behind Easy Rider—to elude a nationwide manhunt and escape to Cuba while being pursued into exile by the FBI.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.
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