How Lovecraft Country Inspired Jamie Chung to Become Her Own Storyteller
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Last fall, Jamie Chung wowed audiences of HBO s
Lovecraft Country as Ji-Ah, a young Korean nurse who falls for US soldier Atticus Freeman (Jonathan Majors) during the Korean War. But her performance wasn t just moving for viewers. In fact, playing Ji-Ah a supporting role Jamie describes as the dream and her most challenging yet had such an empowering impact that she was inspired to pitch (and sell!) her own show about growing up Korean American. It wasn t just about being cast in
Lovecraft Country in such a rare part as an Asian American actress that moved her; it was about honoring her heritage and spotlighting the often forgotten history of the Korean War, from a woman s perspective no less. While the actress tells POPSUGAR her upcoming show is still in very early stages, she admits she s quite excited. As Jamie steps into the next chapter of her career, it comes as no surprise that she
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The past decade has been a golden age for children’s animated television, and
Adventure Time led the charge. Starting life as a cute but seemingly inessential fantasy about a candy kingdom, a bubblegum princess, a boy named Finn and his malleable talking-dog best friend, Jake, the series quickly expanded its scope without ever losing its sense of wonder and playfulness. Exploring the pains of adolescence, building a mythology without ever seeming to strain for it, experimenting with different formats, finding depth and tragedy in a villain as goofy as the Ice King nothing was out of bounds. At once complex and instantly accessible,
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The Owners: Andrew Ellis as Terry and Rita Tushingham as Ellen Huggins
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From pet shoggoths to basement-dwelling ghosts, HBO s
Lovecraft Country doesn t skimp on delivering quality supernatural monsters. In an exclusive, behind-the-scenes glimpse at the Season 1 home release (on sale tomorrow), you can find out how the visual effects crew incorporated the CGI beasties into the live-action series that blends the dark underbelly of American history with madness-inducing cosmic terrors of H.P. Lovecraft. The genre-bending aspect of the show is one of the things that the crew are most excited about, director of photography Robert McLachlan explains in SYFY WIRE s clip from the never-before-seen Compendium Of Horrors featurette. For me, as a cinematographer, it comes back to what it is we re photographing and how I can engage the audiences as fully as possible.
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