Thuso Mbedu plays Nawi in The Woman King, a young orphan whose adoptive father is just as determined to marry her off as she is to resist the trappings of a loveless marriage.
She's stubborn and tough. Traits that will augur well for her when she instead becomes part of the highly skilled and roundly feared all-female military unit known as the Agojie, female warriors of the Kingdom of Dahomey, a territory now recognised as modern-day Benin.
It's the type of story Mbedu has always wanted to tell as an actor. It's the reason she's in the business.
