SOPÈ ARE YOU UP FOR IT?
It’s a freezing-cold February day in an east London studio that clearly is impervious to heat. Empire is huddled around a monitor with Corin Hardy, lead director of the second season of Gangs Of London, partially to stay warm, but mainly to watch Hardy and his crew shoot a sequence that will serve as the audience’s re-introduction to Elliot Finch, the show’s nominal hero, played by Ṣọpé. Dìrísù.