Tessa Thompson

Did you go out on stories with them or what was your shadow?

Yeah, I got to go out on stories.

They got to help me with my copy.

So I would send my copy in the show.

They would help me rewrite.

I got to go in studio and watch them work.

It's one of the great extraordinary pleasures of what I get to do is to really, in the process of preparation and research, to meet so many extraordinary people that do incredible work and to really get a window into worlds that

I think I might know something about, but truly, like anything, you know nothing about it the closer that you look.

Oh, I'm so curious.

Something that was really surprising to me is I had always sort of assumed that anchors in particular were people that were just reading the news as opposed to writing it, that they actively are really, you know, writing those stories and have so much to do with that.

And then also just being in the room where they're deciding what stories are important or when something's breaking.

But, you know, I had a similar thing just sitting across from you because when I played Sam in Dear White People and got to play someone that worked in

in a radio station.

I still, every time I do a podcast or I'm in a radio station, I have like a rush of that feeling again because I just loved doing it.

I just so enjoyed doing it.

Sometimes when I play parts, this isn't always the case, but sometimes it feels like I get a sense of a window of like another trajectory I might have taken were I not an actor.

You know, sometimes I find things that I go, God, I probably would have really loved to do this thing.

And

And doing what you do is one of those things I thought when I was working on it, goodness, I really like this.

Yeah, so it's set in this tiny little town called Dahlonega.