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  June 29, 2017
  Posted by Mouza
  Gallery Update, Movie Projects, Stills/Screencaptures, Video

Sometimes last year, we got an email telling us that Gugu was part of a campaign on Indiegogo to make a short movie called After the Storm. We donated and have been waiting for a while to get any update since the last email we got was 6 months ago promising more updates but we got nothing. A few weeks ago I got a tip from one of our followers telling me the movie was posted online, but we still got no official link from the campaign and we decided to wait a bit. Today I decided to just go ahead and post the production stills we found online so check them out:

   
And here is the movie, that as far as I know (source 1, source 2) have been officially released online, enjoy!

  June 29, 2017
  Posted by Mouza
  Gallery Update, Movie Projects, Stills/Screencaptures

Hey everyone, so sorry as I’ve had these done for months but I forgot to upload them. I’ve updated the gallery with over 400 high quality screencaptures of Gugu as Esme Manucharian in Miss Sloane.

   

  May 05, 2017
  Posted by Mouza
  Movie Projects, News

Kate Beckinsale, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and rising star Damson Idris (star of John Singelton’s upcoming FX series Snowfall) will star in Farming, a story based on the life of Nigerian-British actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje.

In the 1960s through 1980s, Nigerian children were farmed out to white working class families in the UK and as they were in private foster care many of them were never registered with social services making them invisible to the authorities. Growing up in white communities across the country these children slowly lost their cultural identity and many were never reunited with their parents.

Idris will play a young Nigerian boy, “farmed out” by his parents to a white British family in the hope of giving him a better future. Instead, Enitan grows up to become the feared leader of a white skinhead gang in 1980s England. Beckinsale plays the self-serving foster mother Ingrid. When all seems lost and Enitan spirals into self-destruction, a benevolent teacher (Mbatha-Raw) offers him one last chance at redemption. [Source]

  March 21, 2017
  Posted by Mouza
  Gallery Update, Photoshoot

I’ve updated the gallery with some new released shoots of Gugu during her press day round up in Los Angeles a couple of weeks ago.

   
Photo Sessions > 2017 > Set 004
Photo Sessions > 2017 > Set 005
Photo Sessions > 2017 > Set 006

  March 06, 2017
  Posted by Mouza
  Gallery Update, Photoshoot

I’ve updated the gallery with photos of Gugu during the press conference of ‘Beauty & the Beast’ in Los Angeles yesterday.

   

  March 06, 2017
  Posted by Mouza
  Gallery Update, Interview, Photoshoot

   

She’s one of Oprah’s favourite actresses, has the Streep seal of approval and is starring alongside Emma Watson and Ewan McGregor in Beauty and the Beast. Meet Gugu Mbatha-Raw, an Oxford girl done very, very good.

You don’t forget your first . At least Gugu Mbatha-Raw won’t. The woman she now calls her ‘fairy godmother’ – but had never met at the time – left her a voicemail four years ago, when Gugu was in a New York cab on her way to JFK.

‘When I listened to the message, it was the weirdest thing,’ she says, succumbing to a fit of giggles. ‘Because at that time I was doing Oprah’s meditation experience with Deepak Chopra, where they email you a short meditation each day. Then suddenly I get this lovely rich voice saying, “Hello, this is Oprah” – and it sounded just like the opening of the meditation app. I thought I’d pressed the wrong button by mistake.’

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  March 03, 2017
  Posted by Mouza
  Gallery Update, Public Appearances

I’ve updated the gallery with 80 photos of Gugu attending the Los Angeles premiere of ‘Beauty and the Beast’. She wore an amazing Oscar de la Renta dress the premiere. Thanks to Maria from andysamberg.org for some of those.

   

  February 22, 2017
  Posted by Mouza
  Movie Projects, News

With a huge thanks for Debbie about the tip, it looks like Gugu joined the cast of a movie called “Irreplaceable You”.

What movie are you working on?
It’s Irreplaceable You and it’s starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, who is one of my favorite actresses. She’s an absolute delight to work with.
It’s a romantic comedy, but the subject matter is a little dark. It’s all about what happens when life throws a wrench into the plans you thought you had with the love of your life. How do you move on and make sure that they’re okay, if you have to move on apart? It’s been a great project and I like that I’m filming in New York for once. It’s so rare that I get to film in the city that I live in. [Source]

  February 19, 2017
  Posted by Mouza
  Movie Projects, Video

  February 14, 2017
  Posted by Mouza
  Gallery Update, Interview, Photoshoot

   

She’s in New York a week before Christmas—a stopover to see friends, have lunch with a director, and check out Othello, the Off-Broadway show no one else can manage to get tickets to. She has a good in: The guy who plays Othello, David Oyelowo, stars opposite her in J. J. Abrams’s new Cloverfield movie, out this fall. Mbatha-Raw is also in one of the few reboots Abrams isn’t responsible for: Beauty and the Beast (March 17), in which she plays a French maid turned singing and dancing feather duster. Portraying a Swiffer is a nice break from the dark (and moving) roles she’s taken recently, including a victim of gun violence in Miss Sloane and a terminally ill bisexual woman who becomes trapped in a computer simulation on Black Mirror. “I love tragedy, but you can’t do it all the time—it’s way too draining,” she says. [Source]