Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor was raised in McComb, Mississippi, a one-time battleground in the struggle for civil rights, and says she carried a lot of the pain her maternal forebears endured. Undoubtedly, that informed her powerful performance as Hattie in Nickel Boys, writer-director RaMell Ross’s adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s book. When Hattie’s grandson, Elwood Curtis, is unjustly […]
‘Nickel Boys’ Actress Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor Shares Her Ancestral Pain In RaMell Ross’s Dark Story From Florida’s History
