star is keenly aware that no one could write a more storybook ending to the behind-the scenes saga of ’s latest critically acclaimed film. The thriller, which required multiple rounds of principal photography before finally wrapping in 2022, has reigned atop Netflix’s top ten and various other streaming originals charts in the two-and-a-half weeks it’s been available to stream. The pic chronicles Aaron Pierre’s Terry Richmond and Robb’s Summer McBride as they risk life and limb to put a stop to a corrupt small-town police department in Louisiana.
After the film’s scheduled production was shut down by the pandemic in 2020, Robb joined the cast ahead of 2021’s spring shoot, replacing another actor in the process. A month into filming, former lead actor, John Boyega, abruptly left the project due to “family reasons,” putting the mid-budget film in a precarious situation. Fortunately, Robb didn’t have to toss and turn for too long over whether she’d be able to portray what is now considered to be one of her finest roles to date.
“We waited for about a month down [in Louisiana]. We were in this holding pattern to figure out what was going to happen, and then, once that wait was over and everything had been figured out, that’s when I knew I’d be coming back the next year,” Robb tells . “So we started and then paused, and I was down there for about two months [in total].
We then started back up at the same time in 2022.” When she says the phrase “.