The fifth season series order5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Keith Stanfield’s range as an actor, from a homeless youth in Short Term Twelve to an eccentric, nonsensical friend in the TV show Atlanta, is evidence of his ability to inhabit all sorts of personalities. A seemingly kind man, driven to terrible things. Jija haunted me throughout Jemisin’s novel. She can see the whites of his eyes, and then a silvery-gray disc of color that she can barely distinguish from the white, even up close.” - The Fifth Season But what strikes Damaya most are the child-buyer’s eyes. Everything about the stranger seems lean and attenuated. But where Father’s big shoulders join a big chest and a big belly, this man sort of tapers. And he’s big - taller, with broader shoulders, than Father. He has long flat hair, which together with the skin might mark him as an Arctic, though the color of it - a deep heavy black, like the soil near an old blow - doesn’t fit. ![]() “His skin is almost white, he’s so paper-pale he must smoke and curl up in strong sunlight. Alabaster is, in my opinion, the most complex and interesting character in the novel, and a master artist like Cheadle would have no trouble capturing his nuance. Especially the aspect of height, as Cheadle is only 5′ 8″. When I reread this description of Alabaster, Don Cheadle popped into my head immediately. ![]()
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