From ‘Lovecraft Country’ to ‘The Crown,’ Dramatic Period Pieces Offer New Perspective on Historical Events

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Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVActor Jonathan Majors recalls his mother telling him, when he was a child, to always come home before the street lights came on.But it wasn’t until he was filming “Lovecraft Country” that he realized that was not because “my mother was afraid I wouldn’t be able to find my way home in the dark,” he says. “It was the fact that she grew up in Texas and a sundown town was a real thing and if you were not home by the time those street lights came up, you were in trouble.”Working on the first season of the HBO drama that mixed elements of horror, supernatural mysticism and science fiction on the backdrop of historical events gave him fresh perspective on the Black experience in America.