![]() ![]() “I stood back for a minute and thought, Wow. “I remember going into the restaurant and … I saw the energy of this family immediately,” Onwumere said. The actor joined Season 2 while it was already in production, and when he met up with the cast for the first time in Mexico City, he instantly noticed the deep connection his co-stars share. ![]() He's a great character, and it would be a real shame to have that go away.”Įnter Toby Onwumere, a recent graduate of UC San Diego, who will take over the role of Capheus. "I think the most important thing is that Capheus's storyline lives. “It's just a case of, creatively, two people having a really different idea of what they want to do," said Tuppence Middleton, who plays Icelandic DJ Riley. “I knew the fans would be concerned, but I wanted them to know that we were OK,” said Clayton, who was the most vocal Sense8 cast member when the news broke. Please help stop that rumor,” she responded to a fan who suggested that reason for Ameen's exit. Some speculated that Ameen had an issue with the transgender community, but Clayton, who is also transgender, immediately shot down that theory. “I am not prepared to change,” tweeted one fan. After all, substituting one actor for another well into a show’s run is tricky. (Ameen declined to comment for this story.) Fans were, understandably, concerned by the news. The collective reverence the cast shares for Wachowski shone through when another major change struck Season 2: Wachowski and one of the show’s Season 1 regulars - Aml Ameen, who played Capheus, a bus driver in Nairobi - did not see eye to eye and he left the series. I want more people to understand the scale of what someone's creative energy and their drive to tell a story can accomplish. “She works long days, six days a week, and then travels with us, but is on the plane writing and rewriting. Smith, who plays Chicago cop Will, told BuzzFeed News on the San Francisco set of Season 2. It's superhuman what she's doing,” Brian J. She's an absolute force.” Clayton’s co-stars echoed her sentiment about Wachowski’s unflappable dedication to the series. “The way she channels her energy and her creativity … it keeps me in absolute awe whenever I'm in her presence. “Lana is absolutely a superwoman,” said Clayton, who plays American hacker Nomi on the show. Now, in Season 2, the enormity of the series rests solely on Lana’s shoulders. To properly bring to life each of the diverse characters’ worlds, the show is both set in and filmed on location in dozens of countries - America, Korea, England, Kenya, Germany, India, and Mexico most prominently. Sense8 amassed a cult following in its first season, which juggled the complex, interwoven story of eight strangers (aka “sensates”) scattered across the globe, who discover they are mentally, emotionally, and spiritually linked (aka “a cluster”). Lilly, who came out as transgender in March, is using this time to focus on her well-being, but she could return should Netflix order a third season. ![]() “Lilly needed to take some time off,” Jamie Clayton, one of the show's stars, told BuzzFeed News of the executive producer in a phone interview. Now, for the first time in her professional career, Lana Wachowski is going it alone as the singular director and guiding voice of every episode of Sense8 Season 2. They've written and directed seven feature films together, and in 2015, they launched their first television show: Netflix’s Sense8, which they co-created with J. Over the course of their 20-year career, filmmakers and siblings Lilly and Lana Wachowski have operated as a single creative unit. ![]()
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