[This story contains spoilers for Sinners.]

In the spring of 2024, Wunmi Mosaku and her Sinners castmates kept hoping that people would embrace Ryan Coogler’s story in the same manner they were on set. Fast forward to the present day, the film is now the Black Panther filmmaker’s second cultural phenomenon, sporting the decade’s strongest reviews from critics and audiences, as well as the biggest opening weekend ($48 million) for an original film in the 2020s.

The vampire horror-thriller chronicles Smoke, Stack and Sammie Moore’s quest for freedom and how their individual ambitions impact their Mississippi Delta community in 1932. The Nigeria-born, England-raised Mosaku plays Annie, a Hoodoo practitioner and the estranged wife of Michael B. Jordan’s twin brother character, Smoke, who’s more disciplined and business-minded than his twin counterpart, Stack. Annie and Smoke lost a baby daughter together seven years earlier, prompting Smoke and Stack to leave their loved ones behind...