‘Pluribus’ Promotes Samba Schutte To Series Regular For Season 2

Samba Schutte has been upped to series regular on Apple TV‘s Pluribus for its upcoming second season. Production is currently underway on Season 2.

In a guest-starring role in Season 1, Schutte played Mr. Diabaté, a Mauritanian who chooses to see the bright side of the situation, cultivating a hedonistic lifestyle of luxury for himself in the penthouse suite at The Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino, as Seehorn’s panicked Albuquerque romantasy author Carol Sturka tries fruitlessly to pull him into her quest to save the world.

For his performance, Schutte received a Saturn Award Nomination for Best Guest Star in a Television Series.

From writer, director and executive producer Vince Gilligan, Pluribus tells the story of the most miserable person on Earth who must save the world from happiness.

For Season 1, Pluribus received 18 Emmy Award nominations, taking home 6, including Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for Rhea Seehorn, who led the series playing novelist Carol Sturka, and Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series, among others.

Pluribus is produced for Apple TV by Sony Pictures Television and executive produced by Gilligan, Gordon Smith, Alison Tatlock, Diane Mercer, Jeff Frost, Jenn Carroll, and Trina Siopy.

Schutte is a Dutch-Mauritanian actor, comedian and writer who was raised in Ethiopia. Recently, he starred in the HBO Max pirate comedy Our Flag Means Death. He won the Jury & Audience Awards at the Leids Cabaret Festival, Holland’s biggest national comedy competition, and was a writer and correspondent for the Dutch version of The Daily Show. Schutte also starred in the NBC sitcom Sunnyside from executive producer Mike Schur. Schutte has written for the video game Battlefield V, as well as performed in multiple AAA games such as Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. He is repped by Innovative Artists and Established Artists.