{"id":10248,"date":"2019-10-22T11:36:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T18:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10248"},"modified":"2019-11-06T11:39:05","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T18:39:05","slug":"queen-slims-jodie-turner-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/10\/22\/queen-slims-jodie-turner-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"QUEEN & SLIM’s Jodie Turner Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from ESSENCE<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘Queen & Slim’ Star Jodie Turner-Smith Has Us Under Her Spell\t<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

BY\u00a0SYDNEY SCOTT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IN THE BLACK LIVES MATTER\u2013INSPIRED LOVE STORY “QUEEN & SLIM,” NEW STAR JODIE TURNER-SMITH TAKES OUR BREATH AWAY.<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When it was announced last year that Lena Waithe and Melina Matsoukas had tapped a relatively unknown Jodie Turner-Smith to star in their film\u00a0Queen & Slim<\/em>, playing opposite Daniel Kaluuya, fresh from his Oscar-nominated role in\u00a0Get Out<\/em>, the Internet began chattering about the striking British-Jamaican actress. Some remembered Turner-Smith from her star turn as Melantha Jhirl in SyFy\u2019s\u00a0Nightflyers<\/em>\u00a0and her appearance in Zayn Malik\u2019s \u201cPillowtalk\u201d video. But in\u00a0Queen & Slim<\/em>, directed by Matsoukas, written by Waithe from a story by James Frey, the actress is poised to make her mark as a leading lady.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the flick, there\u2019s a scene in which Turner-Smith glides slowly into frame after her uncle\u2019s girlfriend-\u2014played by Pose<\/em>\u2019s Indya Moore\u2014takes out her braids so as to be less recognizable to the authorities chasing her. At Turner-Smith\u2019s arrival, the audible gasp from the audience at an early screening dispelled any notion that the actress was someone who would shrink into the background. When the film hits theaters on November 27, viewers won\u2019t be able to take their eyes off her. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turner-Smith has a powerful presence. A captivating beauty whose sultry energy makes her a scene-stealer, she\u2019s thoughtful when speaking. And while she began her career playing a siren on HBO\u2019s\u00a0True Blood<\/em>\u00a0and popped up in projects like TNT\u2019s\u00a0The Last Ship<\/em>, it was only a year ago that she caught our attention in the adaptation of the George R. R. Martin novella\u00a0Nightflyers<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from ESSENCE ‘Queen & Slim’ Star Jodie Turner-Smith Has Us Under Her Spell BY\u00a0SYDNEY SCOTT IN THE BLACK LIVES MATTER\u2013INSPIRED LOVE STORY “QUEEN & SLIM,” NEW STAR JODIE TURNER-SMITH TAKES OUR BREATH AWAY. When it was announced last year that Lena Waithe and Melina Matsoukas had tapped a relatively unknown Jodie Turner-Smith to star in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversation-information","category-culture-art","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}