{"id":327101,"date":"2026-03-03T18:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T18:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/327101\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T18:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T18:47:08","slug":"on-the-podcast-wunmi-mosaku-was-a-math-genius-now-shes-an-oscar-nominee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/327101\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Podcast: Wunmi Mosaku Was a Math Genius\u2014Now She\u2019s an Oscar Nominee"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to Day 2 of Shark Week!<\/p>\n

Today on the show, actress Wunmi Mosaku joins Chioma in the London podcast studio, where they dive into all things Sinners\u2014from how Wunmi booked the job to the powerful lessons she learned while portraying Annie.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy team said, \u2018Ryan Coogler wants to meet you for his next film.\u2019 And I was like, \u2018Ryan Coogler knows who I am?\u2019\u201d she recalls, reflecting on the moment she was first invited to audition. Fast forward to Wunmi earning her first Academy Award nomination and picking up her first BAFTA just last week.<\/p>\n

Wunmi also opens up about why she chose to announce her second pregnancy at the Golden Globe Awards<\/a>, and to launch her own maternity line, Iyad\u00e9, meaning \u201cmother has arrived\u201d in Yoruba. \u201cI wanna be present, and if I\u2019m divorcing my head and my body, I\u2019m not really welcoming the baby into this too,\u201d she says, referring to the difficulties of keeping her pregnancy under wraps. \u201cIt feels like you\u2019re kind of taking them for granted. They\u2019re here with you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Plus, she hints at what she may be wearing to the Academy Awards next weekend… Listen above!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to Day 2 of Shark Week! Today on the show, actress Wunmi Mosaku joins Chioma in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60,151362,94610],"class_list":["post-327101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-oscars-2025","tag-the-run-through-with-vogue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}