HBO has responded after actress Kelli Amirah says her skin was darkened with makeup for their drama series Lovecraft Country.
The science-fiction series follows a group of African-American characters in the era of segregation in 1950s United States and come across a dangerous town on which horror writer H.P.
Lovecraft supposedly based his monstrous tales. Actress Kelli Amirah portrayed a younger version of the character Osberta (Carol Sutton) in a photograph on the show's seventh episode.
Now in a viral series of videos on TikTok, Kelli says that when she was in a trailer for the show getting her makeup done for the part, there were conversations about her skin tone by the make-up artists.
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