'Lovecraft Country' Star Aunjanue Ellis on Undoing the "Erasure and Absence of "Black Female Genius" in Film and TV
In an episode of Lovecraft Country that clocks in at under an hour, Aunjanue Ellis crams in an entire career's worth of roles. Her character, Hippolyta Freeman, a 1950s widow, ricochets through space and time — embodying one of Josephine Baker's backup dancers, a Dahomey Amazon warrior and an azure-haired cosmonaut.