
Dominic West, Laurent Lafitte join Emily Atef’s English-language debut ‘Call Me Queen’

Exclusive: Dominic West and Laurent Lafitte are among the international cast in Emily Atef’s English-language debut Call Me Queen, which has wrapped filming in Nairobi, Kenya.
Adapted from Lara Santoro’s 2007 novel Mercy, the film depicts a friendship between an Irish journalist in Kenya and a local woman from the slums, who pair up to combat the AIDS crisis in the 1990s.
Rwandan-French actress Eliane Umuhire and Denise Gough lead the cast, alongside Charlie Carrick, who is in Kristen Stewart’s Cannes Un Certain Regard title The Chronology Of Water, and Danny Sapani; plus Kenyan actors Michelle Tiren, Nice Githinj and Lwanda Jawar.
Adapted from Lara Santoro’s 2007 novel Mercy, the film depicts a friendship between an Irish journalist in Kenya and a local woman from the slums, who pair up to combat the AIDS crisis in the 1990s.
Rwandan-French actress Eliane Umuhire and Denise Gough lead the cast, alongside Charlie Carrick, who is in Kristen Stewart’s Cannes Un Certain Regard title The Chronology Of Water, and Danny Sapani; plus Kenyan actors Michelle Tiren, Nice Githinj and Lwanda Jawar.
- 5/18/2025
- ScreenDaily
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