Who plays the lead role for the TNT show “HawthoRNe”?
TNT’s ‘HawthoRNe’ Review, Jada Pinkett Smith has the goods Smallscreen Reviews By April MacIntyre Jun 15, 2009, 14:49 GMT TNT is premiering a new noir comedy tinged drama tinged about the travails of a nurse in the early stages of widowhood. “HawthoRNe” is the latest from the network, starring Jada Pinkett Smith as Christina Hawthorne, a head nurse immersing herself in work to dull the pain of her husband’s recent death. TNT is premiering a new noir comedy tinged drama about the travails of a nurse in the early stages of widowhood. “HawthoRNe” is the latest from the network, starring Jada Pinkett Smith as Christina Hawthorne, a head nurse immersing herself in work to dull the pain of her husband’s recent death. Jada Pinkett Smith first came across my radar in “The Inkwell,” a film set in my home turf of Martha’s Vineyard, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. She played a rich girl with attitude and stole the show. Years later, the Ozzfest starring, head banging wife of the top box office grossing
Jada shares her new role as being a first for many different reasons. TNT’s new drama series, HawthoRNe presents new challenges for lead actress Jada Pinkett Smith. The LA Times spoke with starlet whose cast in “A Different World” offered her a break-out into her acting career. “This is scary for me,” Smith said. “I’ve never liked being in the center.” She continues on by acknowledging people calling the series ‘Jada’s Show’, but shares she tries not to see it in that light. “I feel like stuff like that traps you,” said the 38 year old actress. Jada’s husband, the internationally known Will Smith, explains this new territory Jada is exploring brings ‘new dynamic’ into the household. “She’s opening up her ideas and goals to scrutiny, and that can be a very new and painful place to be,” he said. “She is learning how to trust her team, to collaborate.” Jada adds on by expressing her husband’s enthusiasm for her to play the lead role, “He’s been baffled by this forever…I remember him askin
