Wunmi Mosaku is joining the ensemble cast of We Own This City from creator and executive producer David Simon (The Wire) and producer George Pelecanos (The Wire). The limited series is based on Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton’s book; We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption, and production is set to commence in July.
Among the ensemble cast are Jon Bernthal (The Walking Dead), Josh Charles (The Good Wife) and Jamie Hector (The Wire). Reinaldo Marcus Green (Monsters and Men, Top Boy) will direct and also executive produce on the series.
The six-hour limited series chronicles the rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force — and the corruption and moral collapse that befell an American city in which the policies of drug prohibition and mass arrest were championed at the expense of actual police work.
Mosaku will play an attorney assigned to the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, which was investigating policing practices in Baltimore before the Gun Trace Task Force criminal investigation.
Simon and Pelecanos will write the series, with The Wire alum writers Ed Burns and Bill Zorzi. Dwight Watkins will also write. Simon, Pelecanos and Burns also executive produce with HBO’s former President of Miniseries Kary Antholis, Nina K. Noble and Green.
Mosaku has appeared in two recent television hits, the HBO series Lovecraft Country playing Ruby, the sister of Jurnee Smollett’s character. For this role, she has earned positive reviews and followed that up with Marvel’s Loki, which is currently enjoying a massive reception on Disney Plus.
Her other notable television credits are Idris Elba starrer Luther and the award-winning television drama Damilola, Our Loved Boy. She is represented by Gersh, Scott Marshall Partners in the UK, Principal Entertainment LA and Ziffren Bittenham.
