Thus, Majors believed hisLovecraftjourney was truly over.
Below, Majors opens up about his Emmy nodand looks back on hisLovecraftjourney.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: How did it feel to get nominatedafterlearningLovecraft Countrywas canceled?
Jonathan Majors on ‘Lovecraft Country’.HBO
I had made peace with not being with myLovecraftfamily again.
[So being nominated] is aLovecraft-ian situation, to be living two realms with it.
Misha shared a photo of the bible for season 2, which listed Atticus.
Courtney B. Vance, Jurnee Smollett, and Jonathan Majors on HBO’s ‘Lovecraft Country’.Eli Joshua Ade/HBO
Had there been any discussions about you returning in a potential season 2?
There’s always chat.
[But] we changed that.
For me, that was heartbreaking.
Did you actually shoot that tag or was that just a draft?
It was a draft.
The first draft that I got, it was there.
So I was like, “Oh s—.”
When you look back on season 1, what are you most proud of?
For you, what was the key to grounding Atticus amid all of the supernatural chaos he was facing?
That’s how you lead an ensemble.
You have to pay attention to the people you’re with, and they ground you.
And then there’s the element of, “Okay, what am I here to do?”
With every character, you have an opportunity to show, to tell a secret.
What was the secret I was trying to tell with Atticus?
What is a hero?
That’s [what] I was wrestling with.
And he is a Black man.
He is living in this Americanized patriarchal world and is capable of surviving and thriving in it.
And that gives hope, Atticus is hope.
Which episode are you thinking about submitting for the award consideration?
I really love episode 6, but I love it for me.
And yet, I think the pilot might be the place to go.
But then there’s episode 2, which has one of the most heartbreaking parts of the whole series.
Why were you waffling between episodes 1 and 6?
I think in the pilot we see the beginnings of every element of Atticus.
It’s all there.
So Tic is in episode 6.
That’s what we see.
They still call them Tic, but this is Atticus.
That’s what he calls himself with the other woman at the bus station.
“What’s your name?”
And that’s like the birth of him.
He’s just starting this journey.
