Black Quote by Salim Akil

When you're playing a superhero, you're almost playing two different people. I separate when I'm playing Jefferson Pierce and the days when I'm playing…

— Cress Williams

I did not know much about 'Black Lightning' beforehand, but I always wanted to play a superhero. After getting the part, I went back…

— Nafessa Williams

If the only thing that was interesting about Jefferson Pierce is that he is African-American, I don't think we'd have much of a show.

— Salim Akil

I'm an actor, and I don't look at myself as providing comic relief. I have done diverse and dark roles such as a psycho,…

— Boman Irani

I feel like there's different kinds of evil and there's different kinds of villains, and as much as I would like to be dark…

— Rachelle Lefevre

What really, really inspires me is that you don't see many black superheroes on television.

— Adrian Younge

I like dark, dramatic roles; they're just really powerful and real.

— Daveigh Chase

What I'm normally associated with are darker, more brooding roles.

— Kelly Macdonald

It's nice to be a part of a show I was passionate about and that's pushing the culture forward. I feel 'Black Lightning' is…

— Nafessa Williams

As an actor, those kinds of really intense, emotionally packed, dark things, those always very appeal to me greatly.

— India Eisley

I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.

— Walton Goggins

I don't have any characteristics that are usually associated with a villain. Like I am not tall, broad-framed or have any scars on my…

— Vatsal Sheth