The LovecraftCountry cast opens up about how the HBO show taps into the Black experience with a sci-fi twist.
"It taps into so many themes that we get to explore about who we were as a nation, who we are now, who we were in Jim Crow America in 1955," Smollett said during Saturday's"And the things of what's happened back then are still going on today," Vance chimed in. Williams added that the monsters in the series are physical manifestations of invisible horrors:"The monsters represented everything that is dark and vile in society.
"And the connections. You look for the character and who he's connected to -- like fatherhood, what it is to be a son, what it is to be a Black son, what it is to grow up in a Black community at a time where that was a very unexplored area. We didn't have any stories about that," Majors continued. "When we first meet Atticus, he's reading a book. He's a Lovecraftian bibliophile, that's not commonplace. It didn't take me much to know like, yeah, it's on.
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