Congrats to Sinners costar Wunmi Mosaku after taking the Best Supporting Actress trophy during yesterday’s BAFTA awards. She plays Annie, the estranged, Hoodoo-practicing wife of Michael B. Jordan‘s Smoke Moore. I was looking at one of her Sinners clips this morning and saying to myself, “Yup, she brings it.”
But I have to be honest — when Mosaku was Oscar-nominated a while back I could barely remember a single stand-out scene that she was in. Ditto when she won yesterday. For the first time in the history of the BAFTAs I had to pull clips to jog the memory. Face it — Mosaku’s big one-on-one scene with Jordan is on the flat side.
Maybe she won because she’s a Brit — born in Nigeria, raised in Manchester. Or because the voters were attracted to the idea of making history, Mosaku being the first black British winner of this particular BAFTA award.
When I think of Sinners the principals appear in a recollection cavalcade — Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld, Jack O’Connell, Miles Caton, Buddy Guy, Delroy Lindo, the KKK guys. Mosaku? Not so much.