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I'm the biggest nerd.
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Nerd
Biggest
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Black women have earned the right to be basic.
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Earned
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I think a caricature is different than a character.
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Caricature
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I don't know if there is an expiration date on diversity.
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Date
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For me, humor was always my passport into new communities.
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Passport
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I'm not going to run or be silent for fear of keeping a fan base.
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Silent
Fan Base
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It was really important to me to explore how disparate people are connected.
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Me Important People
Disparate
Explore
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I hope movies like 'Love, Simon' encourage people to be their authentic selves.
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Authentic
Selves
Simon
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I was obsessed with Carol Burnett, Lily Tomlin; I watched 'Mama's Family' religiously.
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Mama
Watched
Burnett
Carol
Carol Burnett
Lily
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I think it's so important for us to make art and to be loud and to resist with our art.
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Loud
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I'm interested in stories being told by marginalized voices and, specifically, people of color.
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Marginalized
Specifically
Voices
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The thing about improv that I really love in scripted television is that it really makes a moment authentic.
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Authentic
Improv
Scripted
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I'm a military brat, so I moved around a ton. When you're making friends and you're funny, it makes that easier.
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Brat
Ton
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HBO has been incredible and a huge champion of my work, my passions, and has been a great home for my talent, I feel.
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Hbo
Work Home Great
Passions
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My feet are firmly planted in my political ideology. To me, it's being authentic in every area, and that includes politics.
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Ideology
Political Ideology
Politics Political Me
Authentic
Firmly
Planted
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As far as being a plus-size woman, I play a plus-size character by default, and for me, the visibility - that, I think, is key.
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Default
Visibility
Character Me Woman
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Luckily, with 'Insecure,' we have really great writers who get it and work hard to give Kelli layers for me to explore as an artist.
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Insecure
Layers
Work Great Me
Writers
Explore
Luckily
Work Hard
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In a world where you graduate with a theater degree from college, you gotta find your bread job. You gotta find that job to pay the bills.
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Bills
Bread
Where World Your
World Your Find
Gotta
Graduate
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My social media is riddled with me speaking out on stuff that matters because silence is a petri dish for hate. For me, it's important to speak out.
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Silence
Social Media
Hate Social Media Me
Dish
Matters
Riddled
Speaking
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I have always gravitated toward levity and my parents; I'm sure they have a VHS tape of me when I'm making jokes and trying to make faces when the family was taking a picture.
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Faces
Levity
Tape
Family Always Me
Picture
Family Me Parents
Toward
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When you're a writer, there is a selflessness that has to happen; you have to have equity with how you treat each of the characters and the information you bring into the room.
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Equity
Selflessness
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I think it's important to make art for a myriad of reasons. The least of which is that I think laughter is medicinal, and I think there is an escapism aspect - an act of self-care.
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Aspect
Escapism
Laughter
Medicinal
Myriad
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Being authentic is important to me, and I am not going to present this fluff, fake, sanitized version of myself that doesn't reflect who I am or what my passions and interests are.
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Fake
Myself I Am Me
Authentic
Myself Me I Am
Passions
Reflect
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I was constantly trying to make my family laugh and my parents laugh. It's just something that always felt natural to me. And then I learned how to use my powers for good in high school.
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Family Good Me
Just Something
Powers
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As a writer, I use improv to write. Exploring characters and stories through improv and sitting at the computer and thinking about what this character would say or do helps me creatively.
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Exploring
Thinking Character Me
Creatively
Improv
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I have chosen to never take myself out of the running for roles. I will continue to throw myself into projects that I am passionate about and will continue to create opportunities for myself.
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Chosen
Myself I Am Will
Never Take
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Improv is such a huge part of my background, and a huge part of character discovery is really being inside the character and trying to think through them without the limitations of the script.
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Discovery
Huge Part
Improv
Limitations
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My bread and butter is rom-com, and if I had to go back and tell my 15-year-old self watching 'When Harry Met Sally' that one day I would be writing a film in the same genre, I would have freaked out.
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Bread
Genre
One Day
Butter
Freaked
Day Back One Day
Harry
Met
Sally
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I've always been kind of precocious, but my journey sort of solidified when I was in college and majored in theater. That's how I knew I wanted to spend my life writing, telling, and performing stories.
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My Journey
Precocious
Life Journey My Life
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'Love, Simon' is incredibly dope, but that's one specific experience, and I would love to see more versions of that story being told or other stories that we haven't even seen yet from the LGBTQIA community.
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Versions
Simon
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When I moved to New York, I really wanted to find my bread job as close to my passion as possible. There's nobility in waiting tables. But I really wanted to find a job in the arts, and so I started teaching.
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New York
Bread
Moved
Nobility
Passion
Tables
Waiting
Arts
Close
York
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I would just take dolls around the house - there's old VHS footage from my dad, who was an early adapter and had this RCA camera - and it's me taking a Michael Jackson Barbie doll and putting on a show with that.
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Barbie
Doll
Footage
Jackson
Rca
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One of the things I pride myself on is that my fan base is progressive, but I don't shy away from people who think differently from me. I welcome productive conversations, but it's important for me to not hide where I stand.
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Shy
Welcome
Conversations
Fan Base
Myself Pride Me
Hide
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One of the biggest things I learned was not to tell myself 'no' before someone else. As someone who's creative, I know the inner critic can be really loud. Early on in my career, I would just listen to it and tell myself 'no.'
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Loud
Biggest Things
Critic
Inner
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I feel like theater in high school seems to be sort of like the safe haven for the outsiders and people who don't necessarily fit in. And it was a come-as-you-are sort of class, and it's a come-as-you-are after-school activity.
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After School
Outsiders
Safe Haven
Haven
People Safe Feel
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I remember writing monologues and one-act plays and stuff in high school. I had a project in English that was just a short book of limericks. It was so weird. I enjoyed the challenge and rhyme of it. I was always putting on plays and stuff.
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Monologues
Rhyme
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I'm drawn to subversive material and material that speaks to communities and people who tend to be marginalized, and telling those stories in ways that subvert expectations. That's always been fun for me to play and always been fun for me to write.
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Marginalized
Subversive
Always Me Fun
Drawn
Speaks
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I've always performed. From the time that I was little, I was pretty precocious and always gravitated toward performing arts. But I was scared at first, deciding to do it for a living. So, initially, I majored in journalism, and I was pretty miserable.
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Miserable
Performing Arts
Precocious
Deciding
Initially
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What I loved about playing Ms. Albright in 'Love, Simon' is that, so often, when we speak of allies in the queer community, we don't really get to see what it means be an active ally. I love that she can step into this world with these kids and be a truth teller.
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Active
Allies
Ms
Queer
Simon
Teller
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I definitely was inspired by drama teachers in high school named Mr. Walsh and Ms. O'Neil, and both of them were very formative in helping me sort of understand theater. But I think my biggest inspiration is that I was a high school drama teacher in real life for four years in the Bronx.
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Bronx
Life Teacher Me
Named
Mr
Formative
Ms
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Teaching theater, I felt very lucky. In a world where there's few options for someone who graduates with a theater degree, trying to figure out how to make rent and pay the bills, I always gravitated towards teaching jobs and things like that. I wanted to stay close to my passion as well.
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Bills
Graduates
Always World Passion
Options
Rent
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When I was a teacher, I definitely noticed bullying happening, and I noticed people choosing to be quiet when they should speak up. And so for me, as a teacher, it wasn't just about advocating for students who were being picked on but trying to teach the bystanders how to speak up and not be afraid.
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Advocating
Bullying
Teacher Me People
Choosing
Noticed
Picked
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As far as the adjectives that I lead with, I think a writer and a comedienne are first. I have never qualified my experience or gender or my race, although I know that's a huge component on how that is used. But I think in order for me to do my job effectively, I have to really be the best at what it is I'm doing.
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Adjectives
Gender
Qualified
Best Experience Me
Component
Effectively
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When someone on screen portrays a character that behaves in a way you don't expect, you're subverting ideas. So if there's a Venn diagram between why people are drawn to the characters I play, it may be that. But I'd like to think that the craft of acting and the choices I make as an actor are drawing people on their own merits.
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Drawing
Character People Way
Behaves
Craft
Diagram
Drawn
Merits
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I was sort of always the class clown, but I think that was confusing for my teachers because I had the grades to back it up. I would be finished with assignments and goof off, because I'm done. And so, it would be like, 'Oh, she has like a 4.2 GPA, but she's also just like walking around the halls with the hall pass and bothering other students.'
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Assignments
Clown
Confusing
Grades
Halls
Bothering
Class Clown
Goof
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