Issa Rae
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Podcast Appearances
I entered a Sundance writing contest with a friend and we were semi-finalists.
And I just wanted to make the movies that I love that weren't
in theaters anymore.
The Love Joneses and the Love and Basketballs, all those disappeared and I was like, I want to make those.
Those movies make me feel way.
And then I started making web series when I went to LA and tried to sell those movies that I was talking about and there just wasn't an audience for them.
I would just dabble with trying to make an audience online.
And that turned into like, I really like doing this.
And now I'm building a following.
And I kind of just want to create for online until the right opportunity comes along.
And then a few right opportunities came along that I fucked up.
Thanks for telling us that.
For sure.
Please say more.
I mean, I'm very candid about an ABC opportunity with Shondaland, Shonda Rhimes' company, that I just wasn't ready for creatively because I was too scared.
Like you were offered something and decided not to do it?
I had pilot opportunities.
And I pitched a show for them for ABC and their development team was so great in terms of like holding my hand through the pilot process.
Because despite wanting to be a filmmaker, despite writing for my own web series, I had never really written a TV show before and much less like a network pilot.
And so I was also...