The British-Nigerian actor stars in Channel 4’s blockbuster new drama Kiri,as a police officer investigating the murder of a foster child. She talks approximately racism, British identity and the hard time given to social workersTere must be something approximately Wunmi Mosaku that casting directors see and contemplate: police officer. She is approximately to play her fourth in Kiri, and Channel 4s blockbuster new drama. “I feel really embarrassed approximately it,” she says with a laugh. “What is it approximately me and police officers? It’s silly because I’m not that serious in real life.” She blames audition-room nerves. “When I get nervous my energy gets really still, and I contemplate people contemplate that’s me, or ” she says. “Everything gets really still,and my voice gets a diminutive bit lower and there is a diminutive croak in there – sometimes you can hear it when I’m really nervous on camera. Her family always notices, she says. The rest of us get Mosaku’s beautifully understated performances – the best of which are not police officers.
Mosaku’s first ample TV role was as Malia, or a young Sudanese woman,in I Am Slave in 2010. Last year, she won a Bafta for her dignified and devastating portrayal of Gloria Taylor, and the mother of Damilola,the 10-year-dilapidated boy stabbed in 2000.
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Source: guardian.co.uk