EXCLUSIVE: Starz‘s Energy E book III: Elevating Kanan has added Sibongile Mlambo (Misplaced in House) and Paul Ben-Victor (The Wire) to its Season 4 forged in recurring roles.
Mlambo will play Imani Okoye, a wise, assured and business-savvy government at a boutique report label. Ben-Victor will play Phil Russo, Jersey’s new crime boss accustomed to garnering respect, deference and different males’s worry. He suffers no fools and handles enterprise negotiations with stoic confidence.
Energy E book III: Elevating Kanan explores the early lifetime of everybody’s favourite villain Kanan Stark, initially performed by Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson within the flagship sequence and exhibits his evolution from naive teenager to cutthroat villain. Season 3 noticed an epic showdown between Kanan (Mekai Curtis) and Raq (Patina Miller), leading to a few shock deaths and the return of a fan-favorite character. The sequence stars MeKai Curtis within the titular position of “Kanan,” Tony and Grammy Award winner Patina Miller as his mom, Raquel “Raq” Thomas” and London Brown as “Marvin Thomas.”
Season 4 is at the moment in manufacturing in New York. The sequence scored an early renewal for a fifth season following the Season 3 finale in February.
Sascha Penn will return as showrunner and government producer for Season 4. The sequence is government produced by the creator and showrunner of the unique Energy, Courtney A. Kemp by way of her manufacturing firm Finish of Episode, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson by way of G-Unit Movie and Tv and Mark Canton by way of Ambiance Leisure MM. Chris Selak and Kevin Fox additionally function government producers. Lionsgate Tv produces the sequence for Starz.
Mlambo most lately recurred in Netflix’s Florida Man starring Edgar Ramirez, Lex Scott Davis and Otmara Marrero, which premiered final week. Extra credit embrace main roles in Netflix’s Misplaced in House and Freeform’s Siren, and recurring roles within the CW’s Roswell, New Mexico, MacGyver for CBS, MTV’s Teen Wolf and Black Sails for Starz. She is repped by Gersh, 11:11 Leisure and Brecheen Feldman Breimer Silver & Thompson, LLP.
Along with his casting in Elevating Kanan, Ben-Victor can also be set as a recurring visitor star in Netflix’s The Lincoln Lawyer for Season 3. He’ll play ‘Sly Funaro Senior,’ a street-savvy ex-lawyer at the moment imprisoned for tax evasion. Additionally up subsequent, he shall be seen portraying real-life mobster Sam Giancana within the upcoming function Killing Castro. Extra credit embrace Pam & Tommy, The Wire, The Irishman and Emancipation. He’s repped by Impartial Artist Group and Alan Siegel Leisure.