Nafessa Williams and Lucas Till to Star in New Spy Thriller
Lucas Till and Nafessa Williams are joining FX’s new pilot. Entitled, The Spook Who Sat by the Door, the duo is joined in the series by Nathan Darrow and Tom Irwin.
Based on the spy novel by Sam Greenlee, the series will tell the fictional story of Dan Freeman (Y’lan Noel), a patriot and Vietnam vet, who is recruited as the only Black operative in the CIA as part of an affirmative-action program in the late 1960s. After a very competitive selection process he trains in high-level combat and espionage. However, following this arduous training, this model recruit is rewarded with a post in the reprographics (aka photocopying) department, “left by the door” as a token of the CIA’s “racial equality.”
Till is set to play CIA agent Graham Renfroe, while Williams will play high-class working girl Etta Henry. Production is currently underway on the pilot.
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Source: FX