![]() Thuso Mbedu as Cora Randall in The Underground Railroad, premiering May 14 on Amazon Prime. It’s really astounding and moving in so many different ways.” When I came back into that world, I was confronted with the fact that there’s this beautiful version of my book coming out. “I spent the last few years not thinking about. It was all in there.” Whitehead was just as moved when he visited the set. “This is gold!” Jenkins exclaims of the novel’s rich details. Jenkins is effusive in his praise for Whitehead, who’s an executive producer on the series and who visited the Georgia set where his book’s world was made real. The Underground Railroad is an epic meeting of two artistic minds. There are striking departures from (and additions to) the novel, but Whitehead, whose next book, Harlem Shuffle, will be published later this year, seems to delight in a new reading of his work. It’s his version of a road movie, stretched across five states and 10 episodes ( it premieres on Amazon Prime May 14). Jenkins has turned the novel into a searing, emotional epic. ![]() ![]() The series is adapted from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2016 novel. ![]()
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