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“I love the integrity of the material and the potential future of it. It can go any and everywhere. I think it’s coincidentally the right time for this kind of subject matter to be displayed,” Aldis Hodge, star of “Underground,” told Hollywood on the Potomac. “It’s such a pivotal moment for America’s culture as it stands today because something like this resonates, the subject matter resonates so loudly. I think it’s very, very relevant with the issues we deal with – the social injustice, the miscegenation our personal outlook on our own culture and cultural history. I think something like this can bring a different sort of appreciation for who we are, not only as different individual people, but as Americans because at the end of the day, that’s just what it’s about. We’re all Americans. We’ve got to make it work.”
WGN’S new escape thriller “Underground” was recently celebrated at a White House screening of the series in honor of Black History Month. From executive producers John Legend and Academy Award-winner Akiva Goldsman (“A Beautiful Mind,” “I Am Legend”), Underground is set in 1857 and takes viewers on a pulse-pounding journey with revolutionaries of the Underground Railroad and tells the unflinching story of a group of courageous men and women who band together for the fight of their lives – for their families, their future and their freedom.
“Underground centers on a group of slaves planning a daring 600-mile escape from a Georgia plantation. Along the way, they are aided by a secret abolitionist couple running a station on the Underground Railroad as they attempt to evade the people charged with bringing them back, dead or alive. The 10-episode, hour-long series follows a group of courageous men and women who use their ingenuity, power and perseverance to attempt the greatest escape in history and break free, despite the dire consequences that awaited them on the other side.” Production
The escape series stars Jurnee Smollett-Bell (“Underground”), Aldis Hodge (“Straight Outta Compton”), Christopher Meloni (“Sin City: A Dame to Kill For”), Alano Miller (“Jane The Virgin”) and Jessica de Gouw (“Arrow,” “Dracula”). For more information on the series, click on WGN.
Produced by Sony Pictures Television and Tribune Studios, “Underground” is created by Misha Green (“Sons Of Anarchy,” “Heroes”) and Joe Pokaski (“Daredevil,” “Heroes,”) who executive produce alongside Academy Award-winner Akiva Goldsman (“A Beautiful Mind,” “I Am Legend”) of Weed Road Pictures; and Joby Harold (“King Arthur,” “Edge of Tomorrow“) and Tory Tunnell (“King Arthur,” “Holy Rollers”) of Safehouse Pictures.
Hollywood on the Potomac sat down with the cast to discuss the timely series:
The Trailer:
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