Lovecraft Country is the first time Jurnee Smollett has been paid the same as her male co-star, and it didn’t happen right away
Jurnee Smollett Is Ready to Own Her Power With HBO's Buzzy 'Lovecraft Country': "I Don't Apologize"With her upcoming series about to boost her profile and platform, the actress and activist opens up about Hollywood harassment, the trauma of brother Jussie's public scandal, and how she's"no longer asking for a seat at the table. We're building our own motherf***ing table.
If the early buzz inside HBO is any indication, she, along with her co-star Jonathan Majors, will soon see their profiles soar. "Jurnee brings depth, nuance and an elevated grace to every role," says Peele, who has cast her in multiple projects. He doesn't acknowledge the obvious, however: that her star has been eclipsed by that of her brother, Jussie, the embattledof staging his own hate crime in early 2019 and then lying about it to the cops.
Though Smollett insists she was more child actor than child star, it became something more than "a hobby," she says, when she landed a starring role opposite Samuel L. Jackson in Kasi Lemmons' acclaimed 1997 film,. As Lemmons recalls, it was a struggle to find a 10-year-old who could deliver the depth and weight that the R-rated drama required.
"Being the girl on page 33 that's killed in a horror film was something I was consistently offered and, I don't judge others, but I couldn't do it," she says, adding that playing "the girlfriend" or "the best friend" wasn't especially appealing either.
At the same time, Green was working through her own internal process, agonizing over the fact that she, too, felt Smollett was perfect for the role. "I just didn't want to be one of those people who only works with [actors] they've worked with before," says Green, who'd eventually stop fighting her instincts. By February, five months after Smollett read the first draft, the part was hers.
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