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EXCLUSIVE: Jodie Turner-Smith has departed Netflix's six-part, live-action limited series The Witcher: Blood Origin. She was to play a lead, Éile, in the prequel to the streamer's hit series The Witcher. "Due to a change in the production schedule for The Witcher: Blood Origin limited series, unfortunately Jodie…

ViacomCBS’s UK network Channel 5 has dropped the first trailer for its hotly-anticipated Anne Boleyn series, in which Jodie Turner-Smith stars as the beheaded wife of King Henry VIII. The teaser trailer features Turner-Smith walking through the King’s court with some trepidation. The three-part series, first revealed b…

Channel 5, Fable Pictures, and Sony Pictures Television have released a first-look image of Queen & Slim actress Jodie Turner-Smith as Anne Boleyn in their convention-busting series on the Tudor monarch. The three-part series, first revealed by Deadline, will examine the downfall of Boleyn through the prism of a…

Jodie Turner-Smith (Queen & Slim, Nightflyers) has been tapped as a lead in Netflix’s six-part, live-action limited series The Witcher: Blood Origin, a prequel to the streamer’s hit series The Witcher. Set in an elven world 1,200 years before the world of The Witcher, Blood Origin will tell a story lost to time – the…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a hot one: British model and Queen & Slim actress Jodie Turner-Smith is to play Anne Boleyn in a convention-defying Channel 5 drama made by the Sony-backed Stan & Ollie producer Fable Pictures. Deadline can reveal that the ViacomCBS-owned broadcaster has commissioned a three-part series that will…

As expected, diversity (or the lack thereof) was the hot-button topic at tonight's BAFTA Awards. Joaquin Phoenix, picking up his Best Actor prize for Joker, made a particularly poignant speech on the topic. "I feel conflicted because so many of my fellow actors that are deserving don’t have that same privilege. I…

UK acting and filmmaking talents have weighed in with their picks for an 'alternative BAFTA list' that highlights more diverse candidates. The campaign, launched by the UK wing of Time's Up, is designed to recognize the number of women and people of color who were overlooked in this year's awards race. The BAFTA…

On the surface Melina Matsoukas’ feature debut, about a black couple on the run after a fatal traffic stop by a white police officer goes terribly awry, sounds like pretty explosive stuff ripped from the headlines. And yes, there is that, but this film has much more on its mind than leaning into just one event. That…

Jodie Turner-Smith started off in modeling and has appeared in TV series such as Nightflyers, The Last Ship and True Blood and has appeared in feature films like The Neon Demon. She now stars opposite Daniel Kaluuya in the Melina Matsoukas-directed Queen & Slim written by Lena Waithe (opening November 27). The film is…

The official trailer for the romantic drama Queen & Slim is out, showing a first date gone horribly wrong. A modern take on Bonnie & Clyde, the film stars Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith as a couple on a first date. The innocent story takes a turn when they are pulled over for a traffic violation and the…

A first look trailer for Universal Pictures and Makeready’s Queen and Slim dropped during the BET Awards and the Bonnie and Clyde-esque feature teased the visual crime drama starring Get Out‘s Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith written by Lena Waithe and directed by Melina Matsoukas. Known for her work with Beyonce…