- Tessa Thompson, For Coloured Girls, 2010. One of six acting New York sisters (from the On Our Own series), Jurnee had to pass due to her Friday Night Lights series. Director Tyler Perry’s first R-rated movie was adapted from Ntyozake Shange’s play: for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf.
- Jessica Lucas, The Evil Dead, 2012. THE MOST TERRIFYING FILM YOU WILL EVER EXPERIENCE. Aw c’mon… Five friends, cabin in the woods, yada yada… The 32-year-later reboot of Sam Rami’s classic was simply a worthless gore fest – enough blood to fill an average pool. The new, Uruguayan director Feder Alvarez, preferred Jessica to Jurnee as Olivia. Jessica, proved her worth later in The Covenant and Cloverfield. Once all together in the 1994-95 TV series, On Our Own, Jurnee’s siblings are named Jake, Jazz, Jocqui, Jojo and Jussie.
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