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Anna Diop Joins Corey Hawkins, Willem Dafoe in ‘The Man in My Basement’ (EXCLUSIVE)


Anna Diop will star opposite Corey Hawkins & Willem Dafoe in the film adaptation of Walter Mosley's ‘The Man in My Basement,' directed by Nadia Latif.

Anna Diop(“Nanny,” “The Book of Clarence”) has signed on to star opposite Corey Hawkins and Willem Dafoe in “ The Man in My Basement,” directed by Nadia Latif. Hawkins stars in the movie as Charles Blakey, a man living in the African American neighborhood of Sag Harbor, who is “out of work, out of luck and on the verge of foreclosure on his ancestral home.” “A knock on the door from a mysterious white businessman, Anniston Bennet (Dafoe), brings a bizarre and lucrative proposition; rent his dusty stand-up basement out and receive enough money to clear his debts for good,” the official synopsis explains.

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