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Seydina Baldé Talks Mission To Create African Action Hero With ‘Lex Africana’: “He’s Part African Zorro, Part Jason Bourne”
Seydina Baldé Talks West African Martial Arts, Action Hero Drama ‘Lex Africana’: “He’s Part African Zorro, Part Jason Bourne”
Baldé plays brilliant architect and martial arts expert Gabriel Aliou Thiam who returns after a spell in Asia to his native Senegal and home city of Dakar, following the death of his politician father in a car crash. The cast also features Maud Baecker ( Tomorrow is Ours), Richard Sammel ( The French Village), Aicha Ba ( Manjak), Matar Diouf ( Wara, Atlantics), Amélie Mbaye ( Emprise), Moussa Sow ( Banel & Adama) and Eriq Ebouaney ( Here and There) as well as stuntman and long-time Baldé collaborator Serge Crozon-Cazin. Baldé, who was born and raised in France and also lived in Canada for a time, woke up to the potential of shooting in Senegal when he was cast in Stefano Sollima’s 2020 Sky Atlantic, Canal+ and Amazon Prime Video Italian crime drama ZeroZeroZero, for two episodes which shot in the country.
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