NEW YORK, NY – SEPTEMBER 28: Abbey Lee Kershaw attends the Dom Perignon & Lenny Kravitz: ‘Assemblage’ Exhibition at Skylight Modern on September 28, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images)
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Abbey Lee Gets Crash Course in American History in “Lovecraft Country”

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), which led to a slew of movies including Gods of Egypt, Neon Demon (2016), The Dark Tower, and Welcome the Stranger (2017), Elizabeth Harvest (2018), and last year’s Lux/Eterna.

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“I play Christina Braithwaite, the only daughter of a leader of a secret order called the Sons of Adam, who are natural philosophers and alchemists. She’s the ultimate provocateur, the agent of chaos, and the white antagonist. She represents, on a larger scale, the oppressed 1950s woman who has liberated herself from the patriarchal society and family that she’s been brought up in, and all the while doing it with her white privilege,” she explains. “So, she’s the ‘Karen’ type, the character that we hear about today.”

Misha Green adapted the 2016 novel of the same name. The story follows Atticus Freeman (Jonathan Majors) searching for his missing father (Michael K. Williams). He’s joined by his friend (Jurnee Smollett) and his uncle (Courtney B. Vance) and together they face off against demons and monsters, though the most heinous creatures of all are the human monsters, the vitriol-spouting racists living in Jim Crow territory.