Ava DuVernay’s Arrowverse series, Naomi, casts lead role

BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 09: Ava DuVernay attends the 2020 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Radhika Jones at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on February 09, 2020 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 09: Ava DuVernay attends the 2020 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Radhika Jones at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on February 09, 2020 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

Last year it was announced that Selma and A Wrinkle in Time director Ava DuVernay was teaming with Arrow writer/co-executive producer Jill Blankenship on a new Arrowverse show, Naomi. The story follows the titular character, who’s living in a small Northwestern town with her adopted family. One day, Superman and Mongul happen to fight through her town, and gets Naomi thinking about the last time a superhero stumbled into her home and what it might mean about her own origins.

Naomi will connect to the rest of the Arrowverse, which now includes StargirlBlack LightningSupergirl, Batwoman, Superman & Lois, The Flash and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow. And who will be playing Naomi herself? According to Deadline, The CW has settled on Kaci Walfall, who played Nala in The Lion King on Broadway).

NEW YORK, NY – SEPTEMBER 18: Kaci Walfall attends “The Lion King” on Broadway on September 18, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Nomi Ellenson/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY – SEPTEMBER 18: Kaci Walfall attends “The Lion King” on Broadway on September 18, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Nomi Ellenson/Getty Images)

The cast of Ava DuVernay’s Naomi is coming together

Joining Walfall will be Alexander Wraith (Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), Cranston Johnson (P-Valley) and newcomer Camila Moreno. Wraith will play a local tattoo shop owner named Dee who is hanging onto a secret. Johnson plays a used car dealer named Zumbado with a murky past, and Moreno plays Lourdes, “a young woman with a sarcastic sense of humor who works in a vintage collectibles shop.”

It sounds like there may be a potential romance between Lourdes and Naomi, as Lourdes harbors a huge crush on our lead character. The two both love comics, which may be key to learning more about Naomi’s past, breaking open the secrets of the multiverse, and coming together.

Naomi doesn’t have a premiere date as of yet, but there will be room with both Supergirl and Black Lightning airing their final seasons this year.

It looks like the new age of DCTV is here, and they’re younger and fiercer than ever!

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