Story tells EW about his new take on Mary Shelley’s classic horror story.
Story still remembers his first encounter withFrankenstein.
And so she sets out to cure it.
Laya DeLeon Hayes in ‘The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster’.KWPR
“My big sisters were my muse,” Story says.
Vicaria’s friends and family are surrounded by love but also have to deal with violent intimidation by police.
“Everyone’s judging this creature before he opens his mouth,” Story says.
“They’re placing these images and preconceptions on him.
The true horror of the situation to me is believing what other people call you.
It can be something as simple as calling you an ‘idiot’ or ‘stupid.’
That’s very horrifying, and it has happened to more people than we like to consider.
As a Black man, that stuff really spoke to me.
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