Condola Rashad & Chiwetel Ejiofor To Star In Religious Drama “Come Sunday”

Condola Rashad & Chiwetel Ejiofor

Condola Rashad & Chiwetel Ejiofor To Star In “Come Sunday”

Actress Condola Rashad will be joining Chiwetel Ejiofor in the Netflix drama “Come Sunday.” The religious film is based on 2005 episode of the popular radio show “This American Life” on the true story of Carlton Pearson, who built one of the largest mega-churches in Oklahoma and eventually lost everything.

Ejiofor stars as Carlton Pearson, a popular evangelical minister of the Higher Dimensions Family Church in Tulsa, Okla., whose services drew as many as 5,000 people. He was deemed a heretic by his peers in 2004 as a result of his decision to begin preaching the doctrine of universal salvation — based on the concept that there is no hell — as what he called “the gospel of inclusion.” Rashad will portray Pearson’s wife Gina, who filed for divorce from him last year, citing “incompatibility issues.”

Condola Rashad

Rashad portrays Kate Sacker on the Showtime hit series Billions, which returns for season two in February. This year, she also starred in the film “Money Monster” with George Clooney and Julia Roberts. She has been nominated for Tony Awards for her in “Stick Fly” and “The Trip To Bountiful” she also starred in Kenny Leon’s 2012 remake of the classic film “Steel Magnolias.” She will be heading back to Broadway this spring with a role in “A Doll’s House, Part 2.”

Recently, Ejiofor has starred in four Oscar nominated films including “The Martian” and the plays the supervillain Baron Mardo in this years mega blockbuster “Doctor Strange” alongside Benedict Cumberbatch.

Danny Glover and Robert Redford round out the “Come Sunday” cast, with Glover playing Pearson’s uncle Gilbert and Redford as Pearson’s mentor Oral Roberts.

By -@missjohnsonp_