Ayo Edebiri and David Oyelowo on the Importance of Making 'Mrs. Dalloway' Riff 'Clarissa' in Nigeria

For the cast of Arie and Chuko Esiri's "Clarissa," which takes Virginia Woolf's novel "Mrs. Dalloway" and moves it from 1920s London to 2020s Lagos, Nigeria, getting to perform in a drama set in modern Africa was a breath of fresh air. Starring Sophie Okonedo as the titular Clarissa, the film reimagines Woolf's upper-class drama as the story of a middle-aged Lagos socialite preparing to host a party while reflecting on the choices that led her to marry a respectable man rather than her close friend, the poet Peter, played by David Oyelowo. Oyelowo told TheWrap's Jada Yuan at . . .