Award-winning actress Jurnee Smollett is a veteran of the big and small screen, and she’s not even 40 yet! The actress started her career when she was still in diapers and won a Critics' Choice award by the time she was eleven years old. Now she’s turning up the heat with her new Apple TV+ crime drama, “Smoke.” No stranger to tackling complex roles, Jurnee joins Sophia to talk about playing a brilliant but troubled detective in her new show, including her prep and research, the behind-the-scenes process of creating a world for her character, and what it was like watching it in front of an audience for the first time! She also opens up about her divorce, early childhood acting experiences, overcoming major working mom guilt, and her relationship with her siblings.  

New episodes of “Smoke” drop every Friday on AppleTV+.

<p>Award-winning actress Jurnee Smollett is a veteran of the big and small screen, and she&rsquo;s not even 40 yet! The actress started her career when she was still in diapers and won a Critics' Choice award by the time she was eleven years old.&nbsp;Now she&rsquo;s turning up the heat with her new Apple TV+ crime drama, &ldquo;Smoke.&rdquo;&nbsp;No stranger to tackling complex roles, Jurnee joins Sophia to talk about playing a brilliant but troubled detective in her new show, including her prep and research,&nbsp;the behind-the-scenes process of creating a world for her character, and what it was like watching it in front of an audience for the first time! She also opens up about her divorce, early childhood acting experiences, overcoming major working mom guilt, and her relationship with her siblings.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><br>New episodes of &ldquo;Smoke&rdquo; drop every Friday on AppleTV+.</p>

Work in Progress with Sophia Bush features frank, funny, personal, professional, and sometimes even political conversations with people who inspire Sophia about how they’ve gotten to where they are, and where they think they’re still going. These discussions stem from her "aha" moment of realizing you are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress, simultaneously.

Work in Progress with Sophia Bush

Work in Progress: JURNEE SMOLLETT 

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