Lovecraft Country.The actress was nominated at the US Critics’ Choice Television Awards for her performance as blues singer Ruby Baptiste, in the HBO horror series.In the episode, Strange Case, Ruby wakes up after being dosed with a magical potion to find herself in the body of a white woman.Later, towards the end of the episode we see a shocking scene when Ruby rapes her white department store boss with a stiletto heel as vengeance for his attempted sexual assault of her only Black colleague.In an interview with the NME, the actress said she “really struggled” with the scene.She added: “We are used to seeing violence against Black women, but we’re not used to seeing violence by a Black woman to a white man.“So I thought that was actually.
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