She has a former handler, William Bishop (Chris Noth), who helps out, and two sidekicks (Liza Lapira’s Mel and Adam Goldberg’s Harry) who have her back. Unlike CBS’ original The Equalizer, which aired from 1985-1989 and starred the late Edward Woodward as a retired CIA agent, Latifah’s character is a divorcee who lives with her daughter and her Aunt Vi (Lorraine Toussaint). You’ll get to see a lot more of that kind of energy, like when she took an interest in politics, in upcoming episodes.” You’re also going to see more of her compassionate side and also her trying to do things with that compassion that aren’t always best for her. “She’s not going to just hang around with her family and have an attitude with her mom. “I love to see Delilah with other 15-year-olds who are her age,” she continues. And she also has a friend in this episode, which is going to be exciting.” “Delilah is causing a lot of trouble, a little bit more than we’ve seen from her previously. You had me believing that you were really mad at me.’ But we always hug and joke after scenes like that,” DeLeon reveals. Afterward, Queen was like, ‘You did that. “We have a heated scene that we did in Episode 106. Viewers can expect more of those types of exchanges as well. She’s also curious about what her mom really does for a living and has caught Robyn, a shadowy but benevolent fixer for folks who can’t go to the police, in a lie or two. There’s just always different consequences and it’s good that we established that very early in the series.”ĭelilah also has a civically minded side as demonstrated in Episode 4, “It Takes a Village,” when she took on City Hall in an attempt to get a pothole fixed. Being a Black girl, you think you can do certain things your white friends or white counterparts can do, and you can’t.
And I think it was the perfect one to start with. “We get a lot of intimate and emotional scenes with Robyn and Delilah and that’s the start of them. “It’s one of the first times Delilah is really understanding her mother,” the one-time Texan adds. And I think us having that scene was just very pivotal.”īecause Delilah hasn’t spent enough quality time with her mom, a former CIA operative, she constantly tests the boundaries.
So she kind of thinks she can get away with certain things that really aren’t good for her and that could also put her in very dangerous situations considering the color of her skin. “That whole scene was a really important scene when we go to the juvenile detention center, because Delilah has been very privileged compared to those girls,” DeLeon Hayes tells TVLine. Titled “The Room Where It Happens,” Episode 6 is a callback to the pilot when Robyn punished Delilah for shoplifting and lying by making her give back to the community and help girls her age who are less fortunate. And when the revamped procedural airs on Easter Sunday, fans will find out what the teenager has been doing when she volunteers at the local juvenile detention center. Thankfully, there is more to Delilah than sass. Now she’s using that same sweet voice to give her mom Robyn (played by Queen Latifah) all the snark and back chat she can handle and then some. That’s because, up until last year, Laya DeLeon Hayes, the young actress who plays Delilah voiced the title character on Disney Junior’s Doc McStuffins. If you listen closely to Robyn McCall’s teenage daughter Delilah on CBS’ The Equalizer (Sundays, 8/7c), she might sound familiar. Queen Latifah: 'Black Women Have Been Equalizing for Years and Years, From Hatshepsut to Kamala Harris'ĬBS' Equalizer: Grade Queen Latifah's Debut as the Ass-Kicking Mom We Need