Jon Bernthal, Nick Offerman, Niecy Nash-Betts & More Join Ava DuVernay’s ‘Caste’

Ava DuVernay is one of the most well-known and celebrated filmmakers of her time. Up next, the director is helming an adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents and she’s enlisting a star-studded cast to do so. According to Deadline, DuVernay has cast Jon Bernthal, Nick Offerman, and Niecy Nash-Betts for the upcoming film.

Additionally, Vera Farmiga, Jasmine Cephas Jones, and Connie Nielsen will appear in the film as well. Oscar nominee Aunjanue Ellis will lead the film’s cast with DuVernay writing, directing, and producing. Paul Garnes (Selma) will serve as the film’s executive producer.

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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is a 2020 nonfiction book by the American journalist Isabel Wilkerson. The book describes racism in the United States as an aspect of a caste system. Wilkerson compares aspects of the experience of American people of color to the caste systems of India and Nazi Germany. The book also explores the impact of caste on societies shaped by them, and their people.

Jon Bernthal will reunite with his King Richard co-star Aunjanue Ellis for the upcoming film. Additionally, the Punisher star recently appeared in Hulu’s The Bear and is highly rumored to appear as Frank Castle in the upcoming Disney+ series Daredevil: Born Again. Meanwhile, Nick Offerman worked with DuVernay on Netflix’s Colin in Black and White. The Parks & Rec star can next be seen in HBO’s new hit series The Last Of Us. Niecy Nash-Betts recently earned a Critics Choice Award win for her role in Netflix’s Dahmer. The actress remains as a main cast member on ABC’s The Rookie: Feds. 

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