Whatever Lola Wants...

Simone Missick lights up the night as Judge Lola Carmichael on all rise.

- By Henry Goldblatt

TYPE THE WORDS “Simone Missick” into Google and the first prompt you’ll see is, well, “Simone Missick.” The second result is “Simone Missick, arm.”

Let us explain.

For two seasons on Netflix’s Marvel’s Luke Cage, Missick played Misty Knight, a New York cop whose arm is gorily (and kind of gloriously) amputated in an epic battle; she receives a bionic replacement infused with all sorts of superpowers. But to hear Missick tell it, the two-pound prosthetic didn’t make her feel very forceful.

“It was the most painful process!” she remembers. “They had to remake that arm about 20 times because I was like, ‘Guys, I can’t move my elbow. How am I going to punch people if I can’t reach for my gun?’ So we went through several generations. It’s like the iPhone. They just kept upgrading the arm.”