{"id":23649,"date":"2026-07-31T23:18:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T18:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=23649"},"modified":"2026-07-31T23:18:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T18:18:32","slug":"london-brown-responds-to-marvin-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=23649","title":{"rendered":"London Brown Responds to Marvin Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>[This story contains MAJOR spoilers from the penultimate episode of season seven of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/power-book-iii-raising-kanan\/\" id=\"auto-tag_power-book-iii-raising-kanan_1\" data-tag=\"power-book-iii-raising-kanan\">Power Book III: Raising Kanan<\/a><\/em>, \u201cPenultimate Means Second to Last.\u201d]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe penultimate episode of <em>Power Book III: Raising Kanan <\/em>didn\u2019t disappoint. Unlike the first episode, \u201cBy Blood,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-features\/power-book-iii-raising-kanan-lou-lou-death-season-5-interview-1236621997\/\">where Lou-Lou\u2019s death was unexpected<\/a>, Marvin\u2019s demise seemed inevitable in \u201cPenultimate Means Second to Last.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBut it\u2019s not just that Marvin dies \u2014 it\u2019s <em>how<\/em> he dies and who kills him. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAfter the beatdown Marvin, played by London Brown, gave Kanan to close out episode five, \u201cSchool of War,\u201d <em>Raising Kanan <\/em>fans can\u2019t be too surprised that Kanan comes around and kills Marvin. But the details do matter. And so does impact. This action by Mekai Curtis\u2019 Kanan certainly aligns with 50 Cent\u2019s portrayal of Kanan that fans know from the flagship <em>Power<\/em> series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBut something else also happens in this next-to-last episode: Hailey Kilgore\u2019s Jukebox also takes a step closer to how <em>Power <\/em>fans met her, as portrayed by Anika Noni Rose. She does this by not just finding out who killed her and Kanan\u2019s friend Fame, or Famous, but by avenging his death. She kills the crime boss duo that has been stirring up things since season three \u2014 Ishmael \u201cSnaps\u201d Henry, played by Wendell Pierce, and Stephanie \u201cPop\u201d Henry, played by Erika Woods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tTogether, Snaps and Pop have been central to sowing bad will, especially within the Thomas family. Kanan really began breaking the umbilical cord to his mother Raq (Patina Miller) when he started believing that she killed his best friend Fame and then his girl, Krystal. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-features\/power-book-iii-raising-kanan-showrunner-patina-miller-discuss-raqs-fate-after-shocking-finale-1236218871\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-features\/power-book-iii-raising-kanan-showrunner-patina-miller-discuss-raqs-fate-after-shocking-finale-1236218871\/\">Last season ended with Kanan putting a gun to Raq <\/a>in response to those deaths, when the truth is that Snaps and Pop are the puppet masters behind it all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAnd they are active to the end. They are behind Shameik Moore\u2019s Breeze joining forces with Kanan. Because of Kanan killing Lou (Malcolm Mays), they are the catalyst for Marvin beating Kanan down and demand that Kanan proves his loyalty to them by directly ordering hits on Raq and Marvin to avenge Defcon\u2019s (Rondell Stark) murder. Clearly, they didn\u2019t see their own deaths coming. And why should they?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cWe haven\u2019t lasted this long in the game without being able to play the game, and that\u2019s what you get to see at the height of the tension and the turmoil,\u201d Wendell Pierce, forever remembered for his role as Detective Bunk Moreland in the iconic HBO series\u00a0<em>The Wire<\/em>,\u00a0explains to <em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> about the pivotal episode. \u201cWe know how to play the game \u2026 they wouldn\u2019t have lasted this long and have had this much of an impact if they didn\u2019t. And that\u2019s what I love about love about these characters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tPierce is also grateful to <em>Raising Kanan <\/em>creator\/showrunner Sascha Penn for being able to work alongside his real-life better half. \u201cWorking with Erika, we\u2019re like hand in glove. We kind of finish each other\u2019s thoughts and finish each other\u2019s words. Sascha and the writers have really created this couple that will be long remembered. People dress like us for Halloween,\u201d shares the <em>Elsbeth <\/em>star.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWoods tells <em>THR<\/em>, \u201cI wanted to conquer her backstory, because she\u2019s based on a real character. Then I wanted to jump into the dialect. I\u2019ve been in New York quite a while, but I wanted to make sure I did her justice. I studied and spent a lot of time in Queens, talked to a lot of people, and really tried to get grounded in her dialect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe ultimate payoff for the Texas-born, Kansas-raised actress? \u201cWhen people ask me what part of New York I\u2019m from.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn that pivotal moment with Jukebox, Woods, who has played more cop than gangster roles in her career, says Snaps and Pop \u201cdidn\u2019t think she was going to kill us. So when you don\u2019t think someone\u2019s going to do something, you move in a different kind of way. But I always kept in the back of my mind, <em>she might shoot us, but, of course, we\u2019ll shoot her<\/em>. We just weren\u2019t prepared, so my only preparation was thinking how we could outmaneuver her and talk her out of shooting us, so that we could maybe shoot her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWoods also adds that \u201cbecause this is not their first rodeo, I don\u2019t think they thought that she would have the heart to pull the trigger, and they just weren\u2019t prepared. They usually have people with them, and it was a very rare day. She did a lot of preparation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThat word \u201cpreparation\u201d also applies to Brown\u2019s portrayal of Marvin this season. The exiting star spoke to <em>THR <\/em>below<em> <\/em>about <em>Raising Kanan<\/em>\u2019s final season and his demise, touching upon who Marvin is and has been, his relationship with his daughter Jukebox and his relationship with Patina Miller\u2019s Raq and, of course, the beatdown scene with Kanan and that final moment in the church when Kanan takes Marvin out \u2014 and Marvin remains as gangster as ever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t***<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Even though we knew it was coming and that it had to happen, we still weren\u2019t ready for Marvin to go. But before we get into the specifics of how it ends, let\u2019s talk about Marvin\u2019s journey in this final season of <em>Raising Kanan<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tFirst, thank you for talking to me. I appreciate it. This season we see a different side of Marvin because he\u2019s been affected in a different way, unlike the previous seasons. I think a lot of people initially felt Marvin was just an irresponsible uncle and just snacking. They were unaware that they were slowly becoming emotionally invested with Marvin, and so now, when we see this turn of emotions at season five, people I think have realized, \u201cOh, we actually do care about Marvin, and we do feel what he feels.\u201d There\u2019s a part of the audience that\u2019s cheering for Marvin because, in season five, I think people have put it all together and realized he is a real person. He may not always be the most responsible with things, and, to a default, he\u2019s so loyal that he kind of gets in his own way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn the previous season, the audience was like, \u201cMarvin, you got to breathe, you got to slow down and you got to think.\u201d I don\u2019t think anyone is even thinking anything about that this season, which is to say that they\u2019ve become a part of Marvin\u2019s journey. Nobody\u2019s thinking about breathing. They\u2019re like, \u201cGo after whomever they got to get after,\u201d [regarding Lou] to bring resolution. And that\u2019s why even with that whole scene, people have been talking about Marvin and Kanan\u2019s whole fight sequence; nobody was even thinking about any therapy. Nobody suggested it. Nobody said, \u201cHey, man, Marvin, you\u2019re going too far?\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBecause I think it\u2019s justified, but only because the audience feels something for Marvin. Now that they\u2019ve gone along with him, they\u2019re like, \u201cYo, man, whatever Marvin got to do, hey, you get it done. We\u2019re there to support you.\u201d But that\u2019s only because we feel that Marvin is human. We just feel bad for Marvin. We want Marvin to hopefully find some sort of resolution to all the pain he\u2019s dealing with.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>We\u2019ve also seen him grow in his relationship with his daughter, Jukebox. After initially rejecting Jukebox\u2019s sexuality and even harming her because of it, Marvin accepted his child\u2019s sexuality and won her trust and love over seasons two and three. By this final season, they are very close. Can you talk about that growth?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWith Marvin, we are talking about in the \u201990s, too. So [sexuality] wasn\u2019t as discussed as it is now. It wasn\u2019t as liberated as it is now. Marvin just really didn\u2019t even understand that world. But I think what he realized was, at the end of the day, \u201cMan, it\u2019s still my daughter. I do love her. I may not even understand it, but, because I love my daughter, I\u2019m willing to try to understand this.\u201d And I think once he realized that the relationship with his daughter was more important than his own opinions, he was able to live [with it] and I think it brought them closer. Because, in the beginning, they were kind of distant. Then, through therapy and breathing and having some talks, he got closer to her and he became super dad. And now, with this [new] relationship, he realized she\u2019s got his back and he has hers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>How did you and Hailey Kilgore, who plays Jukebox, develop that chemistry? \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tShe\u2019s great, man. She is one of my favorites to work with because she always just shows up. It\u2019s important to do scenes with people you trust, and with Hailey, I never had to worry about if she was going to be present or not because I\u2019ve done some scenes with actors who are not present. They\u2019re just saying the words. I\u2019m looking into their eyes trying to connect, and there\u2019s nothing there. But with Hailey, she\u2019s always present. She\u2019s right there with me emotionally, and I know she\u2019s going to give me something, and really listen and respond accordingly, and let these words form organically. She\u2019s so great for that. So shout out to Hailey.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:1296px\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((730\/1296)*100%);\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-hollywoodreporter-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/pbk5-507-112724-0394-a-f-H-2026.jpg?w=1296\" alt=\"\" data-lazy-srcset=\"\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"730\" width=\"1296\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-padding-tb-025\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\">London Brown with Hailey Kilgore in \u2018Power Book III: Raising Kanan.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"a-font-accent-uppercase-xs lrv-u-color-grey-dark\">Starz<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Marvin has so many great scenes, especially in the second half of this final season. One is in the church with the pastor expressing his anger about Lou being gone.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tMarvin has no filter. Marvin is just like, \u201cCan you please provide me with another solution, other than what I\u2019m thinking about? Because Marvin\u2019s trying to process this.\u201d And understand that there are consequences that come with his actions. A lot of this comes from the therapy he went through in the previous seasons. So he is aware that maybe there\u2019s another way. He\u2019s seeking counsel. Marvin is smart enough to understand, \u201clet me just go to somebody who is outside of this world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tEarlier in the season, Raq told Marvin when she was dealing with the crackhead, \u201cI need you to take him out because he\u2019s talking too much.\u201d Even then, Marvin has always had a heart. The man\u2019s name was Sam and Marvin said, \u201cTake this money, get on this bus, and get out of town. Just don\u2019t return back. I can\u2019t tell you why I\u2019m doing this. Just listen and do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThere\u2019s always been some empathy in Marvin from the jump. That\u2019s part of the layers I wanted to create with Marvin. Even though he\u2019s doing all these nefarious things and whatnot, Marvin is still very human. He still feels something in his heart for people because, naturally, as actors we have to bring ourselves to these projects, and London\u2019s very empathetic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAfter I lost my brother in 2015, it really changed my heart. I was already a kind person, but it really softened who I was towards people, and I care. So with Marvin, that naturally seeps through, and it\u2019s like, \u201cman, pastor, give me something. Please. I\u2019m really not trying to do this, but can you give me something that can calm me down?\u201d I think ultimately, the pastor did give Marvin some things to think about because later on he has a conversation with Raq [and asks], \u201cYou believe in God? What\u2019s your thoughts?\u201d So, he is processing,<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>There is a point when Marvin tells Raq that she is leading this ship the wrong way, but he\u2019s so loyal to her that he\u2019s going to sink with her. Because, in the end, he doesn\u2019t abandon Raq.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHe does call her out, and I think that\u2019s important for the audience to see. I know she\u2019s calling shots, but Marvin is still solid enough to say, \u201cRaq, look at how you moving. Because I care about you [and I know] you\u2019re still the boss, I\u2019m just letting you know that you\u2019re moving out of pocket.\u201d At least from Marvin\u2019s angle, he\u2019s like, \u201cYo, I don\u2019t know if this is the move.\u201d He can see her spiraling out of control, and he\u2019s just trying to hold her accountable for that. Marvin did it respectfully. He wasn\u2019t wilding out. He wasn\u2019t yelling. That\u2019s not Marvin\u2019s style. He said, \u201cListen, Raq, I love you, but how you are moving might put us in danger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Let\u2019s go to the fight scene. Social media exploded because Marvin gave Kanan a \u201c\u201890s-style beating\u201d after Raq finally told him that Kanan killed Lou. I don\u2019t even think this kind of beating is allowed in the 21st century. It\u2019s so intense. How did you guys prepare for that?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tMario Van Peebles directed that one. It was really draining. It took all day because we got to get all the angles, make sure it\u2019s cut right. They did a wonderful job at piecing that together and making it just seem very seamless. Shout out to Mekai Curtis, another team player. He shows up ready to go. I was checking in with him, \u201cMan am I throwing you to the wall too hard?\u201d He was like, \u201cMan, let\u2019s just get the shot.\u201d He was all game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tI think it was just how it developed. Even from previous seasons, I remember people messaging, \u201cWhen is somebody gonna put a belt to Kanan? \u2018Cause he is getting out of control.\u201d He disrespected his mom. There was the scene where Jukebox performed at the mall for a talent show, and Kanan was talking slick then. I\u2019m looking at Raq [as Marvin] like, \u201cYou\u2019re gonna let that slide? What\u2019s going on?\u201d So by the time [the fight] happened, I think the audience was like, \u201cokay, finally, it\u2019s here.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThat\u2019s why the beatdown had to be a violent one. But you got to think it\u2019s just time and time of letting this pass, the disrespect to his mom, skimming off the top. I\u2019m looking at Kanan like it\u2019s funny because when Kanan first got into the game, and Marvin just had him watching the stash house, I remember Kanan in one scene early on vomited because he couldn\u2019t stand the sight of blood and was just very green. So by the time we get to season five, he\u2019s walking around with this vibrato, like, \u201cMan, he needs to be humble.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBut it was great choreography. We rehearsed it a couple times a day or two before. I just nailed it and got with it. Shout to Mekai, to the choreographers, [stunt coordinator] Wadi [Skye Jones] and the team. And Mario, he shot it well. He covered it so every punch was just impactful. And the makeup team made sure with the blood, and then even after the fact, that Kanan looked beat up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>If there\u2019s anyone who would know how to film a good beatdown, it would be the <em>New Jack City <\/em>director. But we also knew in that moment that it was a mistake for Marvin not to kill Kanan. So let\u2019s go to the church. Why does Marvin go to see the pastor?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tI think there\u2019s part of him that understands, \u201cThis lifestyle is not looking the best for me. Do I have any more options?\u201d Marvin realized that the options are running low because, at some point, these chickens got to come home to roost. So if the pastor can give him some counsel, he\u2019ll hear that. He tried to have a sitdown with Raq a couple times and even with Stefano. He\u2019s running out of options.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>When Kanan shows up at the church, was it just a coincidence or did the pastor turn on Marvin?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tNo, I think the pastor is very solid. Kanan has been on the same run that Marvin was on when Marvin thought that Unique took out Lou-Lou. Marvin was on a hunt, and I think that Kanan was just on the hunt for Marvin because of his ego.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>When Kanan and Marvin come face to face, Marvin is such a G in this moment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tI remember early on, maybe season three, where Raq, Marvin and Lou-Lou meet with the Italians. I guess she felt like Lou-Lou was apologizing and being afraid, and she looks at Marvin, and is like, \u201cYou scared, Marvin?\u201d and he said, \u201cI ain\u2019t afraid of nothing.\u201d And he\u2019s like that here. I wanted to ground Marvin to something very cool in the sense of all the points that you mentioned, which was Marvin maybe already knew at some point, this lifestyle has got to catch up with him. So he\u2019s not shaking. I think at one point, he even offered Kanan a cigarette, like, \u201cHey, man, you want to smoke? You sure, man? Listen, do what you gonna do.\u201d Marvin really isn\u2019t afraid. He understands what it is. I don\u2019t think he thinks it\u2019s going to go the way it does, but he\u2019s not afraid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>I like how the writing aligns with Kanan\u2019s death on <em>Power<\/em>. In that moment, Marvin tells Kanan exactly who he will become, and <em>Power <\/em>fans know that Marvin is spot on.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tEven to that point, he\u2019s saying, \u201cListen, man, do what you want to do to me, but you\u2019re not who you think you are. But from an OG, listen, man, you\u2019re going to be worse than me because you got nobody. What are we doing here?\u201d Marvin is still trying to give some game. He\u2019s still trying to enlighten somebody: \u201cYou can go this route, but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s gonna go well for you.\u201d That\u2019s the empathy of Marvin. Even then, he still cares. The fun part of playing Marvin is creating those layers. He\u2019s not just one thing. He\u2019s not a guy just eating snacks. He\u2019s not a guy with a nice haircut. Marvin is so many things.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:1296px\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((730\/1296)*100%);\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-hollywoodreporter-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/pbk5-507-112724-0306-a-f-H-2026.jpg?w=1296\" alt=\"\" data-lazy-srcset=\"\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"730\" width=\"1296\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-padding-tb-025\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\">London Brown in <em>Power Book III: Raising Kanan.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"a-font-accent-uppercase-xs lrv-u-color-grey-dark\">Starz<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>And it comes on the heels of another conversation Marvin has with Raq where he essentially tells her that she is part of Kanan\u2019s destruction because she sheltered him from what this game really is.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSee, that\u2019s thing. When the show dropped, everyone\u2019s like, \u201cYes, Raq!\u201d \u201cGo ahead, Sister Queen.\u201d Raq has been puppeteering this whole show. She\u2019s very smart, obviously very sharp. She\u2019s always a few steps ahead of everybody. But I think now we start to see Raq kind of crumble, and we see the flaws within Raq. She\u2019s been manipulating and orchestrating this thing from the jump. She even tried to get her son to take out his own pops. Marvin also has kind of been in the dirt with some of this stuff. All he knows is what he knows. But, at the end of the day, I\u2019m telling you who Raq is, and that\u2019s why Patina deserves her flowers because she\u2019s been so good people forgot how bad Raq was. She\u2019s crazy!<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>And Marvin was telling her the truth about her running after Kanan trying to get him to love her and making him worse and, also, how the game has passed them both by and she can\u2019t see it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWhat\u2019s so interesting is that through all of this, with that conversation Marvin had with her, it\u2019s like, \u201cMan, you doing what you always done: you\u2019re protecting Kanan.\u201d Raq is selfish in a lot of ways, and I think that\u2019s why Marvin had to call her out on some of this stuff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Well, I\u2019m closing out this conversation by sharing what Wendell Pierce had to say about your performance this season: \u201cIt is Gary Oldman in <em>Slow Horses<\/em>. Robert De Niro in <em>Godfather 2<\/em>. It is on the level of Louis Gossett Jr. in <em>An Officer and a Gentlemen<\/em>. That\u2019s the sort of work that London is doing with Marvin this year.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tFirst of all, I\u2019m really thankful that anyone is even paying attention to me. We\u2019ve had some talks. He\u2019s always been very kind to give me any game anytime I ask him something. From day one, I was very intentional on not getting lost because I know it\u2019s a big show with a lot of cool parts. You got Omar Epps, Tony Danza, Wendell Pierce, all these juggernauts. You got Patina Miller and a lot of times, all throughout the show, even the day players. I just didn\u2019t want to get lost.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tI didn\u2019t want an opportunity like this to just pass me up because, as an actor, you work hard to stay employed. if someone decides to trust you, I\u2019m just trying to show up. What are we taking classes for? Why am I up at three, four in the morning talking to my coach, going over the sides for it if we\u2019re not going to deliver. My mom dropping me off at my high school at six in the morning for a play, and she has six of us. All of that sacrifice. People who took the time to support me in whatever way they decided to, whether that\u2019s feeding me or picking me up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tMy theater teacher Mark Swinton, I remember one time his car wasn\u2019t working and he lives in Hollywood. My high school was at least 40 minutes in the hood somewhere. So there were like five or six of us. None of our parents had cars, and we get out the theater rehearsal at 11-something at night. He paid for a taxi to drop like five or six of us off in the hood. Then he had to go up to Hollywood. I don\u2019t know what that bill was, but the fact that he did it, there are a lot of people who\u2019ve helped me, and I at least owe it to them to show up and make some of this stuff worth it, to make it count.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t***<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<em>The final episode of <\/em>Power Book III: Raising Kanan <em>airs next week, Friday, Aug. 7, on Starz.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[This story contains MAJOR spoilers from the penultimate episode of season seven of Power Book III: Raising Kanan, \u201cPenultimate Means Second to Last.\u201d] The penultimate episode of Power Book III: Raising Kanan didn\u2019t disappoint. Unlike the first episode, \u201cBy Blood,\u201d where Lou-Lou\u2019s death was unexpected, Marvin\u2019s demise seemed inevitable in \u201cPenultimate Means Second to Last.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/pbk5-507-120424-0418-a-f-H-2026.jpg?w=1296&h=730&crop=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pics-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}