Rachel Hilson Grows Up With Breakout Role in JJ Abrams’ ‘Duster’

It’s taken Rachel Hilson until her almost-30s to do so, but she’s finally started to play adults.  Hilson has become known for roles on projects like “This Is Us,” “Love, Victor” and “Red, White & Royal Blue,” but this spring she’s launched into a new stage of her career with “Duster,” the JJ Abrams crime thriller series on Max. The show also marks her first co-leading role, opposite Josh Holloway; set in the Southwest in 1972, Hilson plays Nina, the first Black female FBI agent, who teams up with a getaway driver (Holloway) to catch a major criminal. “I definitely feel like I’m entering a new phase of my career. I’ve been calling it my adult phase,” Hilson says over Zoom from her apartment in New York. “I am finally graduating from high school and maybe even college on screen. Obviously early on in one’s career you just have to take whatever is offered and I definitely felt that for a little while. I’ve got to eat, got to pay rent. But I think I’m taking my time a bit more now…and I want to take on projects that I feel are really worth my time and my investment. I take these

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