Jurnee Smollett isn't afraid to push the limits for a role - which was the case when she gained 20 pounds for the part of Michelle Calderone on Smoke. "I was really drawn to this character, Michelle, and when I met [creator] Dennis [Lehane], he said to me something that struck with me and really was my way into her," Smollett, 38, recalled to People in an interview published on Wednesday, July 30. "He said, 'We all say we want to be happy, and yet we're drawn to the very things that want to destroy us.' And that was it.