The son of a slave and a slave trader, Malik has ... “The Woman King” falters. The screenplay by Dana Stevens (“Fatherhood”), working with a story by actor Maria Bello, is often simplistic ...

Read on to learn more about the actors in the upcoming film. In The Woman King, Davis will essay the role of Nanisca, the general of the all-female warrior group Agojie. She retains fighters from ...

“The Woman King” was a risky movie to make. Set in 19th-century Africa, starring a huge cast of mainly Black women actors — many of them not widely known — it faced big questions about ...

If those critics had just waited a week, they could have embraced “The Woman King,” an audience-pleasing ... of attention from Brazilian trader Malik (Jordan Bulger), the kind that is ...

“The Woman King” is already a triumph in many ways ... Even the most sympathetic male character, the slave trader Malik who romantically desires Nawi, naively seeks to symbolically disempower ...

Gina Prince-Bythewood’s “The Woman King ... by Malik (Jordan Bolger), a mixed-race Brazilian merchant whose mother hailed from the Dahomey kingdom. Nanisca confronts King Ghezo about ...

Although “inspired by true events,” “The Woman King” clearly isn’t tethered ... (The script is by Dana Stevens, who shares story credit with actor Maria Bello.) Shot in South Africa ...

Of course, doing that with “The Woman King” in particular posed its own challenges. Morgan had to make sure there was enough color contrast between the actors’ skin tones and the amber hues ...

The Woman King was more than Oscar bait. Set in 19th-century Africa, the story centers the real-life story of an elite group of female soldiers from the African kingdom of Dahomey. Lead by Viola ...

The men also fare well in “The Woman King.” In an understated turn, Boyega establishes his might as King Ghezo, but knows when to cede the limelight to Davis. Jordan Bolger impresses as Malik ...