LeVar Burton at the Disney Social Media Conference in 2014. Photo Credit: Josh Hallett
LeVar Burton on ‘Roots’ Remake: ‘I Wanted to Share With This New Generation the Truth’
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Cast includes Mekhi Phifer (Jerusalem, Torchwood, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, Dawn of the Dead (2004), Divergent series), Malachi Kirby (Fallen, Jekyll and Hyde, Doctor Who), Anna Paquin (True Blood, X-Men movies), Forest Whitaker (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Amazing Stories, Species), Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Dracula, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones), Anika Noni Rose (Vixen, Bates Motel, The Princess & the Frog, Bag of Bones), Matthew Goode (Magik, Watchmen), and Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix movies, Hannibal, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, Cherry 2000).
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