LUKE CAGE Season 2 Adds Mustafa Shakir As Bushmaster And Gabrielle Dennis As Nighthawk
The sophomore season of Marvel and Netflix's Luke Cage has gained a couple of new villains, as Mustafa Shakir (The Night Of) and Gabrielle Dennis (Insecure) have been added to the cast in key roles...
Marvel has just officially announced that Mustafa Shakir (The Deuce, The Night Of) and Gabrielle Dennis (Insecure, Rosewood) have joined the cast of Luke Cage season 2, which is set to premiere in 2018.
Shakir will play John McIver, AKA Bushmaster, who is described as "a natural leader, brimming with charisma, whose mission is focused on Harlem and vengeance." Dennis, meanwhile, has been cast as Tilda Johnson, better known by her current Marcel Comics alias, Nighthawk. This incarnation of the character is said to be "a brilliant, holistic doctor with a complicated history in Harlem where, as much as she tries to stay far from trouble, it seems to always find her."
The pair join returning cast members Mike Colter as Luke Cage, Simone Missick as Misty Knight, Rosario Dawson as Claire Temple, Alfre Woodard as Mariah Dillard, and Theo Rossi as Shades.
Note: We recenly got word that stage actress/singer Nabiyah B will play an incarnation of Tilda Johnson in Marvel's Black Panther, so... we're not sure what's going on there!
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