Director Shaka King's biopic about J. Edgar Hoover's destruction of the Black Panther Party in the '60s received great acclaim. The movie centered around the chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party, Fred Hampton, who was betrayed, after being infiltrated by an FBI informant. Hoover considered the Black Panther Party a major threat to America, disregarding their fight for civil rights and equality. At the same time, the FBI considered Hampton to be too efficient, therefore, it was decided that the best course of action was to assassinate him.

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O'Neal was successful in infiltrating the BPP and would betray Hampton, who was murdered on December 4, 1969, aged 21. Many of Judas And The Black Messiah's actors have previously starred in historical biopics, movies about Black lives, and even movies about the civil rights movement.

Daniel Kaluuya - Get Out

Daniel Kaluuya crying in Get Out

Daniel Kaluuya is known for playing Chris Washington in the 2017 horror and psychological thriller, Get Out. Directed by Jordan Peele, Get Out told the story of a group of white upper-class gentry who, feeling bored with their lives, elect to have surgery to have their brain and consciousness replanted into the bodies of Black people whom they admire.

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The movie discusses issues of race relations, particularly the white-Black dichotomy born out of slavery and colonization. It seems fitting, then, that Kaluuya also plays Black Panther leader, Fred Hampton, in Judas And The Black Messiah.

Lakeith Stanfield - Selma

Martin Luther King Jr. holding hands with others in Selma

Ava DuVernay's most famous cinematic workSelma was a historical drama about the history-making 1965 voting rights marches from Selma to Montgomery. The marches were famous for being led by civil rights legends, Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis and Hosea Williams.

Stanfield played Jimmie Lee Jackson, who was murdered during the march by an Alabama state trooper. Stanfield also played Andre Hayworth in Get Out, the man famous for warning Chris to leave the Armitage's home. A few years prior, he played Snoop Dogg in Straight Outta Compton.

Martin Sheen - Grace And Frankie

Martin Sheen has had a long career in Hollywood, spanning 60 years. He is best known for playing the President of the United States in The West Wing. More recently, he is most remembered for his work on Grace And Frankie, a Netflix original series about two business partners who come out as gay after having a secret 20-year affair.

Sheen plays Robert, the more traditional and stubborn of the pair, who leaves his wife after decades of marriage to be with his hippie, free-spirited lover, Sol.

Jesse Plemons - Breaking Bad

Jesse Plemons Breaking Bad

Jesse Plemons played the role of Todd Alquist in season five of Breaking Bad, an exterminator working for Vamonos Pest. But Todd is more than an exterminator. He uses his position to scope out houses, then reports it to other criminals in the area for a fee.

Furthermore, Vamonos Pest is a criminal organization used as a front by Walter, Jesse and Mike. Todd also helps the men get a new cook site and soon becomes Walt's cooking assistant and is later given the task of disposing of Mike's body after Walt kills Mike. Plemons also starred in The Irishman, directed by Martin Scorsese.

Darrell Britt-Gibson - The Wire

The Wire TV Poster

Season four of The Wire sees a second generation of Stanfield street recruits being trained into the drug trade and the drug war. Darrell Britt-Gibson plays Darius "O-Dog" Hill, a teenager who is trained by Chris and Snoop on how to effectively murder on the streets. He soon becomes Marlo's bodyguard, developing a cold edge to him, just like Marlo. O-Dog is famous for going against the word on the street and shooting Cutty.

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He also famously kills Bodie, but his success in the organization places him on Omar's hitlist. Britt-Gibson also starred in Power and Californication.

Dominique Fishback - Project Power

Poster for Project Power showcasing Dominique Fishback, Jamie Foxx, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Directed by Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost, Project Power is a 2020 American superhero movie released by Netflix. It stars Jamie Foxx, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Dominique Fishback as a former soldier, a detective and a street-level drug dealer, respectively, in their quest to stop the distribution of a pill that gives people superpowers for five minutes.

Fishback plays Robin, a drug dealer and aspiring rap artist who fulfills her dreams by the end of the movie. The actress also starred as the protagonist, Star's, best friend in The Hate You Give, directed by George Tillman Jr.

Ashton Sanders - Moonlight

Kiss in Moonlight (2016)

Ashton Sanders played the teenage protagonist, Chiron, in the critically acclaimed 2016 movie, Moonlight. One of the "25 Best Films Of The 21st Century", Moonlight starred Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris, and Janelle Monae, and won the Academy Award For Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Chiron is a coming-of-age story about a homosexual boy who is abused by his mother and his peers for being gay. The movie follows the boy as he develops into teenagehood and adulthood, struggling to survive in Miami during the crack epidemic of the '80s and '90s.

Algee Smith - Detroit

Detroit Movie

After playing Ralph Tresvant in BET's The New Editon Story, Smith achieved acclaim for his role as Larry Reed in the 2017 movie, Detroit. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, famous for directing The Hurt LockerDetroit follows the events of the Algiers Motel incident in Detroit, Michigan, during the nights of the 25th and 26th of July 1967.

Smith plays Larry Reed, a member of a soul music group, The Dramatics, who dreams of making it big, but first has to survive police brutality during the incident.

Lil Rel Howery - Get Out

Lil Rel Howery is an actor and comedian, best known as Chris' funny best friend in Get Out who warns Chris not to go to the Armitage family home. He plays TSA officer, Rod Williams, who keeps an eye on Chris while he is away, and who tries to get the police to help save Chris.

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Desperate, and with no-one to turn to, Rod steals a police patrol car and drives to rural Upstate New York to save his friend from the Armitages.

Robert Longstreet - Halloween Kills

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The next chapter in the Halloween sagaHalloween Kills was released in mid-2020. The movie sees Michael Myers returning to Haddonfield to go after the survivors of his original rampage. Robert Longstreet plays Lonnie Elam, Tommy Doyle's bully during childhood and Allyson's boyfriend from the first movie in the series. Longstreet said of the now-adult Lonnie:

"Lonnie is a complicated, troubled guy who is haunted by his past. Particularly chickening out on going into Michael Myers' house when he was a kid. I think this broke something in him that fu*ks with his manhood."

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