TRAILER: Gugu Mbatha-Raw heads the cast of Possession, a supernatural thriller set between Bristol and Jamaica that is coming soon to Sky and NOWTV in the UK and Ireland.
Mbatha-Raw plays Claudia, an ambitious young bi‑racial lawyer who travels to Jamaica to challenge an inheritance claim made by a local man, Cudjoe East (Sheldon Shepherd), against Oliver Connaught (Jonny Lee Miller), a wealthy white aristocrat. But the case takes an unsettling turn when Claudia discovers that the disputed estate is the very place that has haunted her nightmares: Hope Hill, the Connaught family’s former plantation.
As Claudia and Oliver dig deeper, they uncover a disturbing link between the plantation’s brutal past and the injustices still shaping the present.
Bel Powley also stars in the five-part series (fka Inheritance), alongside Nadean Rawlins, Sean Gilder, Olunike Adeliyi, Richard Dillane, Jack Bandeira, Shantol Jackson, Jeff Crossley and Safina Simpson.
Created and written by Karla Crome (Something Very Bad is Going to Happen) and directed by Storm Saulter (Better Mus’ Come), Possession is produced by Snowed-In in association with Sky Studios. The series is based on an original story created by Jefferson Bannis.
Executive producers are Ruth Kenley-Letts, Jenny van der Lande, Neil Blair, Karla Crome, Storm Saulter, Sam Hoyle, Serena Thompson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Jonny Lee Miller. The development producer is Roxanne Harvey and the series producer is Kate Ogborn.
NBCUniversal Global TV Distribution is handling international sales of the series.
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