"Black People Might Say I'm My Ancestors' Wildest Dreams."

WunmiMosaku is the cover star for @glamouruk's latest issue.

She "exudes ancestral power."

"As she steps into the light with her Oscar-nominated role as Annie in Ryan Coogler’s history-making, the actress opens up to Glamour’s Head of Editorial Content about faith, ancestry, motherhood, and the role that changed everything. “This is the moment that I have worked 20 years towards.”

Talent: @wunmimosaku

Photographer: @ekuaking

Stylist: @georgmedley

Set Design: @joshstovell

Hair: @dionnesmithhair

Make-up: @joyadenuga

Nails: @tinubellomanicurist

Videographer: Nathaniel Rodriguez

Stylist's Assistant: Jack O'Neil

Stylist's Assistant: Alice Dench

Production: @rawproduction_uk

Head of Editorial Content: @kemstagramx

An excerpt from Glamour UK:

“Black people might say I'm my ancestors' wildest dreams. I remember when I was in labour just calling on my grandma. I was like, let me call on all the women who did this before me. You’re remembering who you're from, and that the power that lived in them lives in me.”

Perhaps the film’s most talked-about scene is the juke joint performance, which sees Preacher Boy’s gift conjure musical past and presence to dance together in the Jim Crow-era bar – from hip-hop breakdancers and funk guitarists to African drummers. Wunmi describes the hallucinatory, fever-dream sequence as “magical” in the way it shows how the diaspora is connected via our shared history and culture. As a third-culture kid, she’s always felt unmoored, but Sinners made her reevaluate. “This film just really made me stop focusing on what I had lost, and actually see what we have retained,” she adds.

Juggling new motherhood with the biggest moments of her career is nothing new to Wunmi. She tells me she was breastfeeding during the filming of Sinners, and now, on weekends between red carpets, she takes her daughter – whom she’s raising with her husband, talent manager Tash Moseley, in the US – to dance classes or to see her best friends. “It gives me a different drive. I was driven before I had my daughter, but it gives me a new clarity. Now it's not just a job – it's time away from her. I'm very cautious about who I choose to spend my time with.” - Excerpt From Glamour UK