Wunmi Mosaku Was a Math Genius, Now She’s an Oscar Nominee
The Run-Through with Vogue
Vogue
4.1 • 764 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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It’s Day 2 of Shark Week!
Today on the show, actress Wunmi Mosaku joins Chioma in the London podcast studio. The two dive into Sinners — from how she landed the role to the powerful lessons she learned while portraying Annie.
“My team said, ‘Ryan Coogler wants to meet you for his next film.’ And I was like, ‘Ryan Coogler knows who I am?’” she recalls, reflecting on the moment she was first invited to audition. Fast forward to today: Wunmi has earned her first Academy Award nomination and picked up her first BAFTA just last week.
Wunmi also opens up about why she chose to announce her second pregnancy at the Golden Globe Awards. “I wanna be present, and if I’m divorcing my head and my body, I’m not really welcoming the baby into this too,” she says, referencing the difficulties of keeping her pregnancy under wraps. “It feels like you’re kind of taking them for granted. They’re here with you.”
Spotting a gap in the maternity fashion industry, Wunmi shares why she decided to launch her own line, Iyadé — meaning “mother has arrived” in Yoruba. She even hints at what she might be wearing to the Academy Awards next weekend. Listen here!
The Run-Through with Vogue is your go-to podcast where fashion meets culture. Hosted by Chloe Malle, Head of Editorial Content, Vogue U.S.; Chioma Nnadi, Head of British Vogue; and Nicole Phelps, Director of Vogue Runway, each episode features the latest fashion news and exclusive designer and celebrity interviews.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Art and Fanning Andrews, Vogue's beauty editor at large. My husband and I talk a lot of eBay strategy together because it is something that we have bonded over since the beginning of our relationship. We've known each other for 20 years, and we've been using eBay for even longer than that, both of us. He's very proud of his five-star review, which I have the same. We're pretty popular. |
| 0:22.4 | We have a really good reputation on you, guys. |
| 0:31.1 | This is The Run Through. |
| 0:35.2 | I'm Cho Minardi, and so today I'm joined by the fabulous Womim Misaku, |
| 0:38.6 | who stars in Ryan Couglas' Oscar-nominated film Sinners, |
| 0:44.3 | which is absolutely one of my faves. She's received critical acclaim for her role as Annie, |
| 0:50.7 | a spiritual healer who practices Houdoo and is, in many ways, the heart of the film. I was so excited to speak to her about sinners. The buzz about it and how she's navigating her second |
| 0:55.0 | pregnancy through award season, honestly, she is superwoman and launching her maternity clothing |
| 1:01.1 | line. Well, welcome, Womi. It's such a pleasure to have you. Thank you. Such a pleasure to be |
| 1:08.2 | here. Honestly, like I remember going to see sinners with my partner and it was like the biggest event of the year. We lined up. There were lines out outside the block. We went to see it in IMAX. It was so immersive. It was incredible. I had goosebumps. And actually I had to be kind of drag kicking and screaming because I don't like horror. Me neither. I was like, for this, when I saw the trail, I was like this, Ryan Coogler, |
| 1:31.9 | this cast, this has got to be something. This feels like it's going to be like a generation |
| 1:36.5 | defining moment. And it really was. It's so rare that you get those experiences that feel like |
| 1:42.2 | everybody's watching it at the same time or feeling at the time or talking about it at the same time. |
| 1:47.9 | But this just felt like we're going to be talking about these scenes for years to come. |
| 1:55.2 | Yeah, I hope so. |
| 1:56.2 | I feel like especially Ryan's work as a director and the cinematography in it, it's such a special piece of theatre cinema. |
| 2:09.0 | And I feel like as a social, cultural piece as well, so much to be studied and felt within it. |
| 2:22.1 | I do feel like it's something that film students will be studying in 10 years, 20 years, 50 years maybe. |
| 2:29.8 | I don't know, it just feels different, you know. |
| 2:32.0 | Yeah. |
| 2:32.4 | Doesn't feel typical in any way. Yeah. Doesn't feel typical. |
| 2:34.7 | Yeah. |
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