Regina King on Playing a Devout Muslim in ABC’s ‘American Crime’
*Settling into the vacated “How to Get Away With Murder” time slot on Thursdays is ABC’s new drama “American Crime,” an anthology series penned and executive produced by Oscar winning “12 Years a Slave” screenwriter John Ridley.
The show takes a look at race, class, religion, sex and gender in the American justice system through a murder in Modesto, California. White war veteran Matt Skokie is killed, and his wife, Gwen, is brutally attacked during a home invasion.
Matt’s racist mother (Felicity Huffman) is relentless in her quest to find the killer, and it doesn’t help that the three main suspects are men of color: Tony (Johnny Ortiz), a Hispanic teen rebelling against his father Alonzo (Benito Martinez), Mexican street gangster Hector (Richard Cabral), and Carter (Elvis Nolasco), a black drug addict going nowhere with his white girlfriend Aubry (Caitlin Gerard)
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