12-year-old Lonnie Chavis, who has spent the last four years playing the young version of Sterling K. Brown’s Randall Pearson on This Is Us, makes his big screen debut in fantasy adventure The Water Man.
The film, executive produced by Oprah Winfrey and her Harpo Films, marks David Oyelowo’s feature directorial debut in a story about a young boy who embarks on a mission to find the mythic Water Man, who may carry the secret to everlasting life, to help his gravely ill mother.
Chavis stars as Water Man-seeker Gunner, with Rosario Dawson as his mother and Oyelowo as his distant father, in Emma Needell’s Black List script.
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