Emmy winner Regina King has landed her next gig. She has signed on to star in the streaming giant’s forthcoming racial crime drama, Seven Seconds.
In the series, which comes from The Killing creator Veena Sud, tensions run high between African American citizens and Caucasian cops in Jersey City, where a teenage African American boy is critically injured by a cop.
King will play Latrice Butler, a devout churchgoer and proud wife and mother. After she and her family move out of the projects and become first-time homeowners, Latrice is shaken to her core when she learns that her 15-year-old son, Brenton, has been in an incident. Suddenly aware that there’s more to Brenton than she and her husband were aware of, Latrice is rocked by the power of her anger at her son’s predicament, an anger that will change her life, her relationship with her husband and more.
Sud will serve as showrunner on Seven Seconds, which will kick off with a 10-episode first season. She will exec produce with Lawrence Bender, Kevin Brown, Alex Reznik and Gavin O’Connor, the latter of whom will also direct.
Regina King has won back to back Emmy Awards for her roles on critically acclaimed ABC anthology series, American Crime. She will also be returning for that shows third season as well.
