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Aug 25, 2020 · Paapa Essiedu’s role as Kwame is particularly crucial—after episode four, when Kwame is raped in a Grindr meetup gone wrong, it becomes clear that his plotline will parallel and in ...
Jul 20, 2020 · It’s a key scene for Paapa Essiedu, the 30-year-old British theater actor who plays Kwame. As his character is assaulted, Essiedu is charged with displaying hints of the confident, sexually forward man viewers had met over the previous three episodes while also dramatizing the very real threat of that specific moment.
Apr 16, 2024 · Paapa Essiedu Is A Classically Trained Charmer In The Effect — Essiedu’s buzziest role since I May Destroy You — the British actor brought Shakespearean precision to a very messy romance. by ...
Jul 20, 2020 · Paapa Essiedu: ‘Drama school was a confusing place to be black – I played people who murdered my own ancestors’ The ‘I May Destroy You’ star has broken through as Arabella’s gay friend ...
May 23, 2022 · Paapa Essiedu has taken me to a cafe in North London for Colombian eggs and coffee, and is recounting his worst nightmare, which might also be the best thing that ever happened to him. It was 2014 ...
Jul 18, 2023 · A drug trial love story, Lucy Prebble’s “The Effect” is set to light up London. Kate Lloyd meets its leading couple, Paapa Essiedu and Taylor Russell.
Mar 15, 2024 · Paapa Essiedu is signing up for a second season of I May Destroy You — someday. “Maybe when we’re all old and wrinkled,” he tells the Cut in between rehearsals. For the past decade, the British actor has appeared in a play nearly every year, but it’s his Emmy-nominated role as Kwame in Michaela Coel’s auteurist HBO series that shifted the trajectory of his career.
