Romero""s choice of a black lead actor was due to his low budget, but was still revolutionary - the character was the first African-American to play the heroic lead role in a horror film.She grimaces and scurries from the room:June: What""s this? A hangover, I believe it is.Aunt Charlotte""s got the shakes.Charlotte: Go on, torture me.Go on, torture me.You like making fun of me, don""t you? You think it""s fun making fun of me, don""t you?An imperious Mrs.The actress Bette Davis (in her mid-career at the age of 40) was miscast in the film as the young, beautiful and dissatisfied sexpot, playing one of the baddest, no-good, trashiest, and most warped of allfemme fatalesas she schemed and murdered to escape her oppressive small-town roots and get out of her stultifying marriage.After taking care of affairs of state, the governor unzips his pants and resumes his lustful tete-a-tete with his half-naked, dance-hall secretary behind the curtain: "Affairs of state must take precedent over, uh, the affairs of state.