Vera Farmiga and Jon Bernthal Among Six Stars to Join Ava DuVernay's Film Adaptation CASTE

Six new actors have joined the cast of Academy Award nominee Ava DuVernay’s upcoming film Caste. They include Niecy Nash-Betts (The Rookie: Feds, Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story), Jon Bernthal (The Walking Dead, The Punisher), Vera Farmiga (The Departed, Bates Motel), Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation, The Last of Us), Jasmine Cephas Jones (Hamilton, Blindspotting) and Connie Nielsen (Gladiator, Wonder Woman).

The movie is inspired by Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. Described in The New York Times as “an instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far,” the book — and subsequently DuVernay’s film — examines the system of hierarchy that has shaped America.

DuVernay writes, directs and produces the film alongside her longtime collaborator ARRAY Filmworks’ Paul Garnes (Selma, Middle of Nowhere). Caste is currently in production in Georgia.

via: Variety