Pearl Thusi To Star In First Africa Netflix Series

Pearl Thusi took to social media to announce that she will be starring in Africa’s very first Netflix original series. It is titled, Queen Sono.

She is emotional in the video where she thanks Netflix and the team that she has worked with.

“I cannot wait for every young woman,  every woman on this continent, actually on this planet to meet Queen Sono, we’ve worked so hard on this.”

In the series, Pearl will be playing a spy at a South African Agency.

The show sees comedian and filmmaker Kagiso Lediga as the director, and executive producer Tasmin Andersson.

Earlier this month Netflix had announced that it was looking for African content.

“There’s going to come a time when half of the top 10 of most-watched shows in a given year are going to come from outside of the US,” Erik Barmack, Netflix’s vice-president of international originals, Variety reports.

“I don’t think that’s very actually far away. I think that’s going to come in years, not decades,” Barmack added.

Queen Sono is expected to air in 2019.

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