Abbey Lee replaces Elizabeth Debicki in Jordan Peele’s Lovecraft Country

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

Abbey Lee has joined the cast of Bad Robot & Jordan Peele's upcoming HBO horror series LOVECRAFT COUNTRY as a series regular. She replaces Elizabeth Debicki, who was originally cast in the role of Christina Braithwhite, "the only daughter of the leader of a secret order calling themselves the “Sons of Adam,” she’s gone to great lengths to earn her father’s respect, to no avail. She’s going to pave her own path to power, and she’s going to use Atticus and his family to do it." 

Additionally, Jamie Chung and Jordan Patrick Smith are set for recurring roles with Chung playing Ji-Ah, "a seemingly naive nursing student who is thrust into active service when war breaks out, and a rash of soldier disappearances suggests she is more than what she seems." And Smith playing William, a "blonde-haired, blue-eyed, perfect specimen for the Aryan race. He’s Christina’s henchmen, lover, bodyguard, spy, and anything else she needs him to be when she needs him to be it."

The high-profile project comes to us from Oscar winner Jordan Peele and his Monkeypaw Productions, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, Misha Green, and Warner Bros Television. Penned by Green based on the 2016 novel from Matt Ruff, LOVECRAFT COUNTRY follows 

Atticus Freeman (Jonathyan Majors) as he joins up with his friend Letitia (Jurnee Smollett-Bel) and his Uncle George (Courtney B. Vance) to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America in search of his missing father. This begins a struggle to survive and overcome both the racist terrors of white America and the terrifying monsters that could be ripped from a Lovecraft paperback.

Lee, Chung, and Smith join previously cast Majors, Smollett-Bell, Michael Kenneth Williams, Vance, Wunmi Mosaku, Aunjanue Ellis and Jamie Harris. Emmy-winning director Daniel Sackheim has signed on as executive producer and director an serve as executive producer alongside Peele, Green, and Abrams. Ben Stephenson, Bill Carraro, and pilot director Yann Demange are also executive producers.