Simone Missick, known for her portrayal as Misty Knight in Luke Cage, has opened up about the show’s cancellation by Netflix and how she will never get closure for her character.
In an interview with Collider, Missick claimed the news of the cancellation was the worst news of her life and hoped the show would have led into a Daughters of the Dragon spinoff.
“So, when Luke Cage was cancelled, I was on set, on a CBS All Access show called Tell Me A Story, playing opposite my husband (actor Dorian Missick),” Missick said. “It was the best place to get the worst news of my life. I could ugly cry and no one would no because someone would be there to touch up my make-up, but I didn’t cry. It was surreal. Jeph Loeb gave me a call at eight o’clock at night on a Friday, and my husband was like, ‘He’s calling to tell you that you’re getting your own show.'”
“We both thought this was gonna be the phone call saying, ‘Guess what? Daughters of the Dragon!’ And it wasn’t that. It was, unfortunately, “Hey, Simone, the show is not gonna move on.” I’m a faithful person, and I have a strong faith in God, so I knew that, if this was where it was ending, something great was coming,” Missick added.
Missick went on to discuss the hopes and expectations for her character’s future, which is unfortunately not going to happen after the show’s sudden cancellation without any closure.
“That has been the toughest part, thinking about all of the ways that I had hoped for Misty to develop, and then for it to end the way that it did. Had the writers known that we were only getting two seasons, they would’ve done something different,” she said.
“Even ending it on Iron Fist was an interesting way to say goodbye to her. She’s broken. She has to get a new arm. Everybody was like, ‘Ooh, who’s gonna give her a new arm? What’s it gonna look like?’ So, it was a difficult way to say goodbye to her. That’s why I think it’s, ‘So long.’ I don’t think it’s goodbye forever, but you never know. If it’s meant for me to play Misty again, in a different way, on a different platform, or in a film, I’m certainly game for it. But right now, I’m just so thankful for where I am, doing this, that that’s my focus.”
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