Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor

The reality is most things that I've done, I rarely talk to women on screen. And it gets a little tired.

- H. Alan Scott

EVER SINCE AUNJANUE ELLIS-TAYLOR WAS NOMINATED FOR AN OSCAR FOR her performance in King Richard, she's kept busy with three major upcoming projects. In Lee Daniel's The Deliverance (Netflix, August 30), she co-stars alongside Glenn Close and Mo'Nique. "I just hope they didn't catch me staring." She's following that up with Hulu's The Supremes at Earl's All-You-CanEat (August 23), about Ellis-Taylor's Odette and her two best friends. "I love that Odette was always a protector of her friends...I just think that's heroic." And she's wrapping things up this fall with the film adaptation of Colson Whitehead's novel The Nickel Boys. For Ellis-Taylor, it was the curiosity of the real-life events that led her to it. "I love that idea t