Jurnee Smollett, Angela Bassett ... Baton Rouge in the dead of summer,” she tells Huffington Post. “We were swimming in swamps and trying to do as many stunts of our own as we could.” ...

There’s a reaction to a jump scare here, expletives toward a villain there, and, usually, Jurnee Smollett ... your family,” Smollett muses. “Seeing Black folks swim and dance and fight ...

By Robert Ito Jurnee Smollett learned she had received a best actress Emmy nomination for her starring role on the HBO series “Lovecraft Country” when she was in the hair and makeup trailer ...