[This story contains spoilers for the second episode of HBO's Lovecraft Country, "Whitey's on the Moon."] "You're darker than I expected." Those are the words Samuel Braithwhite (Tony Goldwyn) greets Tic (Jonathan Majors) with upon their first meeting in "Whitey's on the Moon," the second episode of HBO's Lovecraft Country — and it's a line that immediately informed Goldwyn's interpretation of the Order of the Ancient Dawn cult leader. "There's this sort of New England, aristocratic way of speaking that I thought was right for Samuel," Goldwyn tells The Hollywood Reporter. "I thought about William F.
Buckley." In "Whitey's on the Moon," viewers learn of The Order of the Ancient Dawn, a secret brotherhood of the occult, led by Goldwyn's.
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