SEACOLE PERIOD SET MOVIE
FIRST GUGU MBATHA RAW PICS
Two years ago your trusted spy
announced a movie project on a true life story of Mary
SEACOLE, the pioneering Jamaican nurse who became known during the Crimean War for her care of wounded British soldiers, and now we
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The movie should premiere in USA sometime this year
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have the first photos of
Gugu Mbatha Raw in the lead role.
Sam Worthington, Rupert Graves and
Padraic Delaney also star! Seacole’s self-sacrifice on the front lines and fierce, adversarial relationship with Florence Nightingale during the war made her famous in her time.
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The movie was directed by Charlie Stratton
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Spiderman's
Numan Acar will play The Pasha, a high ranking officer in the Turkish army, a lover not a fighter, who helps Mary build her hotel.
Sylvia Hoeks and
Sean Delaney will also star in the film directed by
Charlie Stratton in UK and Romania.
DEZZY'S HISTORY LESSON
Seacole was born in 1805 to a free Jamaican woman and a Scottish officer. She followed in her mother's footsteps and became a nurse versed in traditional Caribbean and African herbal remedies. When the Crimean War
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Gugu Mbatha Raw returns to costume drama after Belle
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broke out, she applied to be a nurse for the British government, but her request was denied. She paid her own passage to the Crimean Peninsula and set up a hotel for soldiers.
