The Doctor Sleep breakout star will play the male lead on the limited series based on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's bestselling novel that The Walking Dead's Danai Gurira is adapting for TV. He'll play a classmate of Nyong'o's character Ifemelu, who falls in love with her when they are both teens.
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