Anna Diop, Nadia Latif and Corey Hawkins discuss The Man In My Basement

Based on the book by Walter Mosley, The Man In My Basement follows Charles Blakey (Corey Hawkins), who is out of work, out of luck and on the verge of foreclosure on his ancestral home. A knock on the door from a mysterious businessman, Anniston Bennet (Willem Dafoe), brings a bizarre and lucrative proposition; rent his dusty stand-up basement out for the summer and receive enough money to clear his debts for good. Once Charles accepts, he finds himself led down a terrifying path that confronts his family’s ghosts and locks the men in a terrifying puzzle, at the heart of it, race, the source of their traumas and the root of all evil.

Check out the trailer here…

Starring Corey Hawkins, Willem Dafoe and Anna Diop, and directed by Nadia Latif, The Man in My Basement will be available to watch on Disney+ in the UK and Ireland from this Friday, 26th September.

We speak to Latif, about her love of Walter Mosley’s book (she’s been thinking about it for years) and the elements she decided to take out of the adaptation plus, the movie’s stars Anna Diop and Corey Hawkins tell us what jumped out at them to want to be part of the project from reading the script.

Watch our exclusive interview here…