Yara Shahidi
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2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 10 Apr
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I feel like a short circuit just because it's like what are you supposed to do with that information? Like how does that change how you relate to somebody or how you show up in the world? And so I think the idea of having fun at events, as simple as that is, that's so many times been the intention. Let's say it's the Met Gala and I think there was – it's always like a high energy thing.
But I think we realized pretty quickly it shouldn't be high stress. Again, it's a fundraiser. Right. It's a fundraiser. People spent... X amount for you to show up and get your team out there for you to look a certain way. And so it's nice because when we've been intention setting, it's been like, no, the priority is having fun and having a new experience. The priority is being open.
And so the intentions change time to time. But I think as of late, they've really been more so about in my 24 years of life, what experiences am I looking for in myself? What things am I trying to unlock for myself?
pretty immediately affected how I show up in rooms because yeah, I used to feel as though I was auditioning for things, but even in non audition settings, like it feels like, oh, it's an audition.
I think it's just an opportunity. It's just another day. I think it's just another day. It's another opportunity to learn about myself. I think, especially in an industry where I'm grateful that the question that I'm being asked more than anything is what do I want? And I'm not 100% certain. I have ideas. I have things that, again, pique my curiosity.
But I have no hard and fast, this is where I want to be in five years. This is what I want to do. My top priority right now has truly been I want to have new experiences. I've been in school for 16 years of my life. I've been on a show for 10 years. And I'm grateful that those have been net positive experiences. for me, like things that I've really enjoyed doing.
But it means that even as an actor, I've been acting for 20 of my 24 years, and there's still so many experiences I've never even had on a set. And so I think it's been nice even honoring the uncertainty in times where I think, no, my job is to come in super certain. Like, you know what I want? I want da-da-da-da-da-da.
Yeah, I'm unclear in a great way in that I'm like, there's so much that excites me right now.
I mean, I think the thoughts are inevitable now and then. I'd have to say it's not a main thought I have primarily because of how kind of diversified my interests are, what we're involved in.
I think that's where having the production company is really beautiful because while there are projects that I'm connected to that may start filming soon, but you just, again, with this industry, you never know. It's nice to be like, we have our hands in things that inspire us that get us to wake up and do the work every day.
I think today there should be a script coming in we're very excited to read. But it's from a project that started with myself, Carrie, an incredible other producer across from us, an incredible writer looking at each other and saying, oh, we want to be in business together. We just enjoy how we all move. We're all from the Midwest. So I think that also helps.
Yeah.
Very similar sensibilities amongst the team. But I think that is really helpful. The fact that I, whether it even be like, I love doing college tours and public speaking at colleges. I was in North Carolina last week. I was in Boston the week prior. And I think having those things are very anchoring because it feels like I'm not sitting here literally waiting for the call.
Because there is a real pressure to it. Auditioning, I think what's funny is that it is... so not personal and so personal at the same time because it's extremely subjective. And there's nothing you did right or wrong most of the times because they're putting so many puzzle pieces together. It could be your height. It could be like, oh, they have a new vision for the character.
And so I think those feelings of doubt and those feelings of, okay, what's next will always be there. But I feel like having a very well-rounded world has allowed me to enjoy the challenge of that and has allowed me to then, even as an actor, prioritize. Working on television is a very different thing because it's a job. You're working for eight months. You're doing 20 episodes.
You're doing 18 episodes, 13 episodes. The edits of the lines are happening day of. You're getting your script and getting rewrites as you're heading –
to set and it teaches you kind of how to be a professional actor but it doesn't necessarily if you don't prioritize it teach you process and what what do you enjoy as an actor because I'm like yeah my skill set is learning lines incredibly fast it's how do I get this end result I mean I come from
You know, my bubba's a director DP, so I'm thinking that steadicam is super heavy, the little rig that they have to wear. I need to get my lines out as fast as possible because I'm thinking about everybody else on set.
And so I think it's actually been really exciting to be kind of in this kind of theatrical, more film-centered part of my life where it's really been about what is my process as an actor? Because I was approaching the other sets as a producer, and I know how behind we are. I know what we're supposed to be shooting.
I know our schedules. Yeah.
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