Jurnee Smollett explains how her character in Netflix’s upcoming Lou is like Black Canary in how they both “tap into the truth of the color of womanhood”.
In Netflix's Lou, Jurnee Smollett stars as a desperate mother who, after her young daughter is kidnapped, teams up with Lou and the two women end up on a rescue mission that will see them risk their lives as well as expose dark secrets about pot of their pasts. It's an action-heavy film that sees Smollett's character take on some major physical — and emotional — challenges all in the name of saving someone she loves.
"I think with Hannah in Lou, she's a survivor. She comes from a very broken background and a very abusive background, but she is so resilient and it's really that resilience that women have that we really wanted to tap into with this story," Smollett said.