.aunjanuejlt reflects on Hippolyta's LoveCraft episode and says 'what we did went beyond the page.'
In the now-canceled show’s first season about an extended family and friends navigating the real-life terrors of America’s Jim Crow era and equally frightful supernatural horrors inspired by H.P. Lovecraft, the 52-year performer played Hippolyta, the unexpectedly widowed mother whose defiance of social norms and aspirations for her own adventure takes her out of this world.
It wasn’t until she got to Atlanta, where most of the filming took place, that Ellis became fully immersed in the world that the writers had created and saw just how “strange and fantastical” things would get. “I trusted what Misha Green wanted to do,” the actress says. “I knew this was her vision and I trusted her vision.”
And when it finally came time to read the script for the standout episode, in which Hippolyta opens a portal to another dimension and journeys through space and time, Ellis was not disappointed. “If I had had expectations, it would have exceeded them,” she says.
When it comes to filming all the different vignettes, including overcoming an ankle injury in order to dance with the flappers in Paris, Ellis doesn’t have a favorite. “I was delighted to do all of it,” she says. “I loved falling in love with Josephine Baker. I loved the Amazon warrior stuff.” But what she loves most is how audiences, especially Black women, responded to the episode. “When you hear about Hippolyta’s erasure and how she feels about it, so many women responded to that,” she says.
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