Aunjanue Ellis Says ‘Lovecraft Country’ Is About Black Self-Liberation
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essence.comLovecraft Country—that centers a Black family and their survival. Then four years later, Underground creator Misha Green uses Ruff’s novel as inspiration for HBO’s Lovecraft Country series.
In Green’s show, which premieres August 16, Atticus Freeman (Jonathan Majors) and his family and friends do battle with 1950s monsters—as in the grotesque Elder Gods and monstrous racists.
Some folks may debate about separating the art from the artist, but for Aunjanue Ellis (who plays Atticus’ aunt Hippolyta Freeman) in this case, the two cannot be segregated. “You cannot separate H.P.
Lovecraft’s White supremacy and his racism from the writer that he was because it fueled his work,” says the actress from her Mississippi porch.
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