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Law & Order Cop Merkerson Leads 'Lackawanna"
Hollywood Reporter
Fri Feb 27, 1:45 AM ET
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By Andrew Wallenstein
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Longtime "Law & Order" cast member S. Epatha Merkerson has landed the lead role in the upcoming HBO original film "Lackawanna Blues."
She will play Nanny, caretaker to a group of eccentrics at an all-black rooming house in Lackawanna, N.Y. Merkerson will star opposite film rookie Markus Franklin, who plays an abandoned boy. Franklin is appearing in the Tony Kushner musical "Caroline, or Change."
"Blues" will begin shooting next month in Los Angeles.
With George C. Wolfe signed to direct, "Blues" is being transformed from an Obie-winning one-act play into an ensemble drama by its author, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, who has a role in the film, as does Halle Berry. Both Santiago-Hudson and Berry will serve as executive producers.
HBO recently closed a flurry of deals with Delroy Lindo, Henry Simmons ("NYPD Blue"), Terrence Howard, Macy Gray, Hill Harper ("The Handler") and Thomas Jefferson Byrd ("He Got Game") to round out the ensemble. Already cast in "Blues" are Jeffrey Wright, Rosie Perez and Liev Schreiber.
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
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