She spoke to Vanity Fair’s Josh Duboff about getting her role on Insecure, seeing her face on billboards and her new book, among other things.
See what she shared below.
On the success of Insecure and seeing her face on billboards: “I was asking someone the other day, is it that people get used to it or they get numb to it? I was like, ‘I hope I never . . . ’ Because I saw a huge billboard on Sunset Boulevard in L.A., and I literally cried. And I’m looking up at me looking down at me . . . It was just so, it was too real.”
She also revealed that she auditioned five times to get the role for the character Molly despite hitting things off with now close friend Issa Rae.
On new movies “Night School” and “Spontaneous”: “Going from a TV show that you have established relationships on to a new environment where you’re not the same place on the call sheet, and you’re just trying to figure it out, you’re working with new directors, it’s a different environment. You’re trying to figure it out.”
On her new book: “It’s kinda like the story of me, but also… it’s essentially what happens when your plans are derailed by God’s bigger plans!”
