Jurassic World 3: Who is Mamoudou Athie, the same idealist Ramzi Cole?

After launching the Jurassic World saga in 2015, Colin Trevor returned to head for a third film, Jurassic World: The World After. Four years after the destruction of Isla Nublar, dinosaurs are now a part of the daily life of all mankind. The feature film creates an event by uniting the two stars of the franchise: Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum and Sam Neil for Jurassic Park, and Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard for Jurassic World.

But this is not just a time for nostalgia. Viewers will also discover new faces, including Mamudu Atie, in the role of Ramzi Cole. Fans of the series may have known this 33-year-old actor, whom he saw earlier this year in the Netflix archives 81. Jurassic World 3 marks its first steps in the blockbuster.

From the essential figure of hip-hop to the water monster

Originally from Mauritania, he arrived in the United States at the age of six months when his father, a diplomat, received political asylum. The comedy is not obvious to him at first: “It’s very funny. I started imitating my sister. Neither was she pretending to be an actress or anything. I was just imitating her conversations.” *

After a year at university, as a hobbyist, he decided to study comedy forever. He enrolled in William Esper’s studio, a school located in New York, then the Yale Drama School. This is where comedy comes in as a calling: “I was just obsessed with comedy. Of course, I was friends with friends, but I was mostly focused on the theater: I went to performances, readings, whatever I attended.” *

After appearing in Experimenter in 2015, he landed his first real-life roles the following year in the family drama Jean of the Joneses and the Netflix music series The Get Down, co-produced by Buzz Lurman. There he camped with one of the pioneers of hip-hop and DJ, Grandmaster Flash.

He remains in the music business with the feature film Patti Cake $, dedicated to a young rapper who dreams of breaking through. The actor wears an extreme look for the role of a mute and asocial musician. Still in the movies, he continues the Unicorn Store, Brie Larson’s first achievement, where he flirts with Captain Marvel translator, and The Circle, where he meets Emma Watson and Tom Hanks.

In 2018, she is at the forefront of the mourning that Elizabeth Olsen has in the Facebook Watch series Sorry For Your Loss, where she plays the latter woman trying to restore herself after her husband’s death. He then joins the Underwater crew led by Kristen Stewart, where an underwater science team tries to survive the earthquake.

First major role on Netflix

After the horror film “Black Box” was produced by Bloomhouse for Prime Video, Mamudu Ati became known to the general public through the Netflix series. Archive 81, In which he plays the lead role. From an adapted podcast, the program follows an archivist who discovers the work of a documentary filmmaker exploring a dangerous cult. If the series was a hit when it aired on the streaming platform in January, however, he decided not to update it for a second season.

What matters is Mamudu Atie from 2022, also celebrating his first role in a blockbuster. In Jurassic World: The World After He is Ramsey Cole, an idealistic senior executive in the service of the Biosine Group. A childhood dream for those who answer Sam Neal and Laura Dern: “My first scene was with Sam and Laura and … I say this a lot, I’m not really afraid of the stage in front of the stars. I’m not interested at all. But these two, not only do I admire them. They work, but I’ve seen them in childhood roles that “I was impressed, I’m nervous. And it showed.” **

We will soon find the actor next to Tommy Lee Jones and Jamie Foxx in The Burial.

* Words translated from the interview Seventh row.
** Words translated from the given interview Digital correction.

Jurassic World: The World After is coming out in theaters on June 8th.