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    "articleBody": "Koumba Diabaté, the party-loving survivor who stole scenes in the first season of Pluribus, is moving to the front of the line. Samba Schutte, who played him as a recurring guest, is now listed as a series regular for Season 2 of Vince Gilligan’s Apple TV hit, joining Rhea Seehorn, Karolina Wydra and Carlos-Manuel Vesga in the main cast. The promotion comes as cameras are already rolling. Filming on the second season began on October 31, 2026, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with a planned shoot of 225 days. Who Koumba Diabaté is In a show about an alien virus that folds almost all of humanity into a calm, smiling hive mind, Koumba is one of the very few people it cannot touch. He is an immune survivor who has responded to the end of the world by living as lavishly as possible, a sharp contrast to Seehorn’s furious, grieving novelist Carol Sturka, who wants the Joining reversed at any cost. Only 13 people on Earth are immune in the story, so each of them carries real weight. Season 1 introduced several, including Vesga’s Manousos Oviedo, a Colombian living in Paraguay who refuses any contact with the hive, and Menik Gooneratne’s Laxmi. Making Koumba a regular suggests the immunes, and the friction between their very different ways of coping, will drive more of the new season. Schutte’s work in the role has already been noticed. He was nominated for best guest star in a television series at the 2026 Saturn Awards for Pluribus. Schutte’s road to Pluribus Schutte took a long road to the role. Raised in Ethiopia, he trained in theater at the Utrecht School of the Arts in the Netherlands, and built a stand-up career in Dutch comedy clubs before moving to Los Angeles in 2011. A short timeline of his screen career: 2016: first American film role, in the comedy The Tiger Hunter. 2019: Hakim, an Ethiopian heart surgeon driving a New York cab, on the NBC sitcom Sunnyside. 2022 to 2023: Roach, the ship’s cook, across 16 episodes of Our Flag Means Death. 2024: voice roles in Jurassic World: Chaos Theory and The Legend of Vox Machina. 2025: Koumba Diabaté in Pluribus. He speaks English, French, Dutch and Amharic, a range that suits a show already filmed in both English and Spanish. He has described his approach to Diabaté in a published interview: where other auditioning actors played the man as sleazy, he played him “more like a kid who has access to everything he ever dreamt of.” Looking ahead, he said he hopes Diabaté shares scenes with Vesga’s Manousos, whose isolation is the opposite of Koumba’s open-door approach. How big Pluribus has become Apple TV has called Pluribus the most-watched series in its history, ahead of both Severance and Ted Lasso. The first season won six Primetime Emmy Awards, including lead actress in a drama for Seehorn and drama writing for Gilligan. Seehorn has stayed busy on the platform too, as our story on her new role as Owen Wilson’s golf coach in Stick season 2 explains, and Apple TV keeps adding shows, from Elizabeth Banks’ She’s Fine with Ted Danson in January onward. Gilligan has said he sees about four seasons’ worth of story in the show. On Badiyaa’s arithmetic, a 225-day shoot starting October 31 would wrap around mid-June 2027, which points to Season 2 arriving no earlier than late 2027. Further reading Wikipedia: Pluribus (TV series) Wikipedia: Samba Schutte Image: Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons This article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by our Editorial Desk. How we work.",
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