Peacemaker: How Danielle Brooks Went from Juilliard to DC Hero
An actor is lucky enough to have one hit show, but here we go again for Danielle Brooks After seven seasons with the Netflix smash Orange Is the New Black, Brooks is a main player in one of the hottest new shows of 2022, James Gunns Peacemaker. Brooks plays Leota Adebayo in the HBO Max DC series. Shes Amanda Wallers (Viola Davis) daughter, but would much rather be running an animal shelter than contributing to the Project Butterfly task force. Trouble is, Adebayo needs to support her family, so shes got no choice but to get into her mothers line of work. No one on the team is especially thrilled about being assigned to work alongside Peacemaker (John Cena), but its Adebayo who manages to strike up a connection with the impulsive and often obnoxious antihero, encouraging him to change for the better. In celebration of Peacemakers stellar run on HBO Max, Brooks joined us for an episode of Collider Ladies Night to explain how she went from being a 15yearold aspiring actor admiring a
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