In our interview with The Sandman season 2 star Umulisa Gahiga, the actress detailed a cut scene between Nada and Lucienne.
Fans of Netflix’s The Sandman are already very aware that the show filmed numerous scenes that never made the final cut. Showrunner Allan Heinberg has said as much in previous interviews. “There have been plenty of times where I’ve actually tried to include too much from the comics: we film it, and you see it in the context of the cut and of the story, and you realise, ‘Yeah, nobody’s going to understand this.’ So there have been casualties,” he previously told SFX Magazine.
However, while Heinberg tried to include as much of the comics as possible, there were also a few completely original scenes. For instance, in our recent interview with actress Umulisa Gahiga, who plays Queen Nada, she detailed a poignant moment in which her character Nada speaks with Vivienne Acheampong’s Lucienne.
“There’s a scene that was written between Lucienne and Nada, where Lucienne tells Nada a lot of Black History that she’s missed or African History that she’s missed, and she’s getting caught up,” she said. “They have a conversation about what’s next for Nada and how she feels about her own mortality and humanity at that moment. Who better for Nada to see for the first time and to interact with than Lucienne, another Black woman?”
Gahiga also shared her imagination of Nada’s life after leaving The Dreaming at the end of Season of Mists. “In my head, I saw her volunteering in small communities. I don’t think she’s in New York; I think that’s a bit intense after everything she’s gone through,” she says. “I think she went back to the continent. I couldn’t tell you where, I didn’t want it to be where I’m from necessarily, but I think she’s trying to rebuild communities from where she was from.”
The Sandman is now streaming in its entirety on Netflix.
