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How ‘Lovecraft Country’ Cars Help Tell the Story of Driving While Black

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Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorIn HBO’s “Lovecraft Country,” Atticus Freeman, played by Jonathan Majors, is in 1950s America, in the era of Jim Crow laws, driving on a quest to find his missing father.Cars play a vital role in the series, as production designer Kalina Ivanov points out, “Black people used cars in the ’50s as a means to survive.” And as we see in the first episode, Atticus finds himself encountering a racist sheriff played by Jamie Harris, who reminds Atticus he’s driving through a sundown town (a town that banned Black people after dark).

His car becomes of utmost importance — for him to survive.Ivanov talks to Variety about the role cars play in the series and how she collaborated with picture car coordinator Sean Ryan to.

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