She heads up the cast as Claudia, a mixed-race lawyer who travels to Jamaica to work on an inheritance claim case for her client, wealthy white aristocrat Oliver Connaught (Jonny Lee Miller).
But even though the actress has featured in many projects, she admits that she hasn't starred in anything quite as "terrifying" as Possession.
She went on: "And obviously, there’s lots of technical aspects to filming – I don’t feel freaked out while I’m filming. But I feel like it’s fun to have those genre elements because I think they make it more accessible to an audience as well, some of the weightier themes.
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The synopsis for Possession reads: "Claudia (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), an ambitious young bi‑racial lawyer, travels to Jamaica to challenge an inheritance claim made by a local man, Cudjoe East (Sheldon Shepherd), against Oliver Connaught (Jonny Lee Miller), a wealthy white aristocrat.
"As Claudia and Oliver dig deeper, they uncover a disturbing link between the plantation’s brutal past and the injustices still shaping the present."
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