Rapman on Netflix’s Supacell: You don’t get a lot of shows at this level with an all-black cast

Rachael Davis hears from Supacell creator Rapman and stars Tosin Cole and Adelayo Adedayo about the superpowered series coming to Netflix.

Josh Tedeku as Tazer, Eric Kofi as Andre, Tosin Cole as Michael and Calvin Demba as Rodney in Supacell. Picture: Olly Courtney/Netflix

If you woke up tomorrow morning and discovered you had superpowers, you probably wouldn’t rush out to get a spandex outfit and a cape and start fighting baddies in the streets. Your life would probably stay much the same, except you’re now able to do extraordinary things, and you’d be left reeling with questions about how this has happened and what the point of it all might be.

Supacell, the new Netflix series created, written and directed by Andrew Onwubolu – better known as Rapman – tells the story of what happens when a group of five ordinary south Londoners, with no clear connection except that they are all black, unexpectedly develop superpowers.