Get Ready for “Luke Cage”

Myles Aronowitz/Netflix(NEW YORK) — Friday, Netflix releases Luke Cage, the third in its acclaimed Marvel superhero series. 

Mike Colter reprises his Jessica Jones role as Cage, a wrongly-accused fugitive left super-strong and unbreakable after a sabotaged experiment.

The series will see Luke relocating uptown from Jones’ and Daredevil’s home turf of Hell’s Kitchen to Harlem, where the reluctant street-level hero will take on criminal kingpin Cottonmouth Stokes, played by Mahershala Ali, who’s terrorizing Harlem.

Colter says when we catch up with Cage, he’s trying to find himself. “Luke Cage really hasn’t figured out what he’s doing. And for good reason: he’s a fugitive, we know that he has skeletons in his closets and he’s trying to basically stay off the radar.” That’s not easy, though — says Colter, “the people he hangs around [with] sometimes, they’re in need. He’d rather be left alone, but…because he’s equipped to deal with certain things, he does step up.”

“Sometimes we just… sit on our hands…and say, ‘Hey, it’s not my problem.’ Well, you can’t say that when you’re a superhero,” says Colter.

The Luke Cage cast also includes Rosario Dawson, reprising her Daredevil and Jessica Jones role as nurse Claire Temple, and acclaimed actress Alfre Woodard, who plays a local politician related to Stokes.

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