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Jurnee Smollett on Making Historical Dramas Like ‘The Order’ and Why She ‘Loves Disrupting S—‘ With Her Work
Jurnee Smollett plays an FBI agent on the hunt for a group of white supremacists in 'The Order,' the latest in a run of historical dramas.
In her latest film, “ The Order,” Smollett plays an FBI agent (a composite character named Joanne Carney) on the hunt for Bob Mathews, the leader of a white supremacist group in the 1980s Pacific Northwest with plans to overthrow the U.S. government. There were elements of the story that Smollett was familiar with — she’d heard of “The Turner Diaries,” the 1978 novel written by William Pierce, the founder of the neo-Nazi National Alliance, which depicts a violent revolution and ultimately a race war aimed at the extermination of non-whites and Jews. “One of the things the film does so well is it explores how this ideology preys on the weak and vulnerable and how this propaganda is bred at a very early age, in small doses,” Smollett says of the way “The Order” threads that needle.
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