Seeing Is Believing
“I’m so scared to speak,” says Archie Madekwe, sitting down to do just that during a brief stint in New York. It’s hard to do press for the breakout moment in your career when the project is so huge — and so fiercely guarded — that the space between what you can and can’t say is rather shallow. “You just want to scream from the rooftops, but you’re only allowed to say two sentences,” Madekwe adds. The 24-year-old Londoner is at the center of “See,” one of the new series launching from Apple TV+ on Nov. 1. The blockbuster series is set in a postapocalyptic-type society where the only people who remain are blind — except for a set of twins, played by Madekwe and fellow newcomer Nesta Cooper. About every cast member on the press tour for “See” has said they were drawn to the project because it is unlike anything else, and because of its sheer scale. Madekwe was initially called on for another character before being paired with Cooper, as the leading twins. Instead of a usual test day at a studio with a table full of crew as an audience, the test for “See” was a full day of properFollow WWD on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.
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