‘Lovecraft Country’ Stars Agree: HBO Show’s Racists Are ‘Much More Terrifying’ Than the CGI Monsters
Also Read: Monstrous Racists and Literal Monsters Come Out to Terrorize in HBO's 'Lovecraft Country' Trailer (Video)Smollett, who plays Letitia Dandridge, agreed that monsters of the fantasy realm are easier for the characters to defeat than humans who hold racist ideologies.“What we explore in the show is how [with] a monster, you know what you get, right? If you see a Shoggoth, you kind of know what you’re up against. The unfortunate thing about the spiritual warfare that our characters are engaged with in bringing down the racism is that you don’t really know where it’s coming from,” she said.