There’s a brand new “badass queenpin” in city in “Power Book II: Ghost,” and her title is Noma. In true “Power” style, the spinoff sequence introduces one among its latest ruthless characters, performed by Caroline Chikezie, in essentially the most explosive manner potential throughout season three’s premiere, which aired on March 17.
The episode’s opening scene ends with Noma chopping off a lady’s hand to retrieve an auctioned-off blue diamond ring her fiancé, Mecca (Daniel Sunjata), was supposed to present her earlier than he was killed. (Aka the identical ring Mecca gifted Monet in season two.) But Noma does not even really make her presence recognized till midway by way of the premiere, when she rolls up on Tariq (Michael Rainey Jr.), Brayden (Gianni Paolo), and Cane (Woody McClain) at Mecca’s penthouse, demanding that they begin pushing medication for her as penance for, she believes, killing her first lieutenant.
According to Starz, Noma is the “ruthless new connect” who disrupts Tariq’s plans to exit the drug sport and places him, Brayden, and Effie (Alix Lapri) again in enterprise with the Tejadas as they’re “challenged to move more weight than ever before.” Clearly, she’s right here to shake issues up. In truth, Chikezie tells POPSUGAR that her “no-nonsense, f*ck around and find out” character “isn’t playing any games” with regards to her enterprise, particularly since she’s stepping in to interchange Mecca.
“She is a badass queenpin,” the actor proclaims of Noma. “The guys fear her, and they should because if they mess with her, they’re going to find out. She has no tolerance for nonsense — she don’t play any games.”
Chikezie says a lot of what we see of Noma in “Power Book II” season three was created by showrunner Brett Mahoney when she booked the function. However, the actor introduced her queenpin character to life by drawing extra inspiration from an unlikely supply: Denzel Washington’s Frank Lucas from “American Gangster.” “When I read Noma, I instinctively knew what was needed to be done in order to portray her,” Chikezie says, referring to the Oscar winner’s notorious character. “I can’t even find a female to liken her to. She’s kind of male, energetically speaking, so [she’d definitely] be Denzel in ‘American Gangster.'”
According to Chikezie, the Tejadas, Tariq, and his crew aren’t going to know what hit them this season with Noma calling all of the photographs. “When she comes into their lives, they’re running their little thing, but she comes in and she kind of takes over a bit and shows them what’s what,” she says. “So yeah, she shakes up a lot of stuff. She restructures the whole thing they have going on. I don’t want to say too much, but tune in and watch, you’ll start to see how things unfold.”
New episodes of “Power Book II: Ghost” air each Friday on Starz. See pictures of Chikezie’s new character forward.
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