Kamar De Los Reyes, In His Final Role, Faces Off Against Tom Ellis In Washington Black — Watch (Exclusive)
Prior to his death in 2023, Kamar de los Reyes took a role in Hulu's historical drama Washington Black. Now, ahead of the limited series' premiere, we've got your exclusive first look at the much-missed actor's final performance.
Washington Black — all eight episodes of which begin streaming on Wednesday, July 23 — is a 19th-century adventure based on Esi Edugyan's 2018 novel. It follows George Washington "Wash" Black, an 11-year-old boy born on a Barbados sugar plantation, whose natural talent for understanding scientific concepts "sets him on a path of unexpected destiny," per the series' official logline. "When a harrowing incident forces Wash to flee, he is thrust into a globe-spanning adventure that challenges and reshapes his understanding of family, freedom and love. As he navigates uncharted lands and impossible odds, Wash finds the courage to imagine a future beyond the confines of the society he was born into."
Eddie Karanja (The Sandman) plays Wash as a child; Ernest Kingsley Jr. (The Sandman) plays him as a young adult. Sterling K. Brown (This Is Us, Paradise), who also is an executive producer, plays Medwin Harris, a convivial refugee who is very popular in/deeply protective of the Black community in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The cast also includes de los Reyes (One Life to Live), Tom Ellis (Lucifer), Rupert Graves (Sherlock), Iola Evans (The 100), Edward Bluemel (Sex Education), Sharon Duncan-Brewster (Sex Education).
In the clip above, Ellis' Titch and Karanja's Wash board a pirate ship under less-than-ideal circumstances. And Captain Alvarez, played by de los Reyes, seems very open to his crewmate's suggestion that Titch is a spy.
De los Reyes — who was well known for his run as One Life to Live's Antonio Vega, and other TV roles including Sleepy Hollow antagonist Jobe and All American's Coach Montes — died on Dec. 24, 2023, after a brief battle with cancer.
Press PLAY on the video above to see how things go when Titch busts out his credentials as an official of "His Majesty's Royal Science League," (though you can probably guess how well that is received), then hit the comments: Are you planning to watch Washington Black?