Interview: ’24’s New Big Bad - Tony Todd

Interview: ’24’s New Big Bad - Tony Todd

Audiences following the seventh season of ‘24′ know that Sengalanese henchman Colonel Iké Dubaku (Hakeem Kae-Kazim) put up a good fight in trying to bring President Allison Taylor (Cherry Jones) and the United States to its knees with some particularly nasty domestic terrorist attacks. But unfortunately for Dubaku (and most ‘24‘ villains), his fatal mistake was grossly underestimating the power of one Mr. Jack Bauer.

After ten hours of playing cat and mouse with Jack in Washington D.C., Dubaku was finally done in by his lied to American girlfriend after she causes a car accident to stop him for good. Poor Dubaku; love hurts, literally.

With that twist, ’24’s’ season narrative kicks into phase two tonight when Dubaku’s very angry boss General Benjamin Juma arrives in town to take care of his Sengala interests and that pesky Jack Bauer too. Veteran heavyweight actor Tony Todd (Candyman, The Crow) originated the Juma character in last November’s movie ‘24: Redemption,’ and he joins the series again to add some fresh mayhem to the mix. In a recent interview, Todd talks to Fancast about what ‘24′ fans can expect from his baddass dictator.