Yara Shahidi
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 10 Apr
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So I wasn't necessarily giving myself the space to play. I'm happy with what we did. I'm happy with the set environment, but I think the space to play is kind of what I've been given now. Even just in auditions of being like, oh, my task is how do I do something I typically wouldn't have.
I had an audition yesterday morning that I was taping and it was just really, what was most fulfilling was that feeling of, oh, I'm really happy I did this process because that was something new for me and I wouldn't have done that typically. And so that felt like the win in that.
I honestly, it's where community plays a big part. Like I'm grateful that mommy and I are business partners because I think not only do we make the business side of it fun and we think similarly in that business side. And then she thinks beyond even where I imagine, but she's also invested in me as a human being, not as a client, not as an actor, they're trying to get on a job.
And so when I think about her and I think about even the rest of the team that I have around me, they're great people to talk to. So I do get to pick up the phone and be like, Yeah, that kind of hurt a little bit. That sings a little bit. And have people to talk through it with.
So rather than trying to avoid the feeling, I think the more I've just, the quicker I've leaned into the feeling, the quicker I'm through it. The more I've tried to hold off and be like, that's fine. They went in another direction.
On to the next. The more I'm spending time at night actually being like, oh, that kind of stung. But I remember getting a note even a couple months ago for a director session that I had a very particular cadence. And that's something that didn't necessarily make me a fit for the character.
It was because you have agents asking for notes. Like, well, she got so far, so what could it be? Right. And so it wasn't like they called, like, hey, her cadence is so off, she doesn't have it. It was after asking, hey, what is it? They said cadence. And I remember just kind of being stuck on it for a second. Because I'm like, do I? I mean, I know I have particular speech patterns.
I have to do voiceover for the show all the time. So I'm always hearing myself talk. But I think that was a really funny instance because when there's very little you can do about how you speak, but it was actually a great, it was like the perfect exercise where it wasn't personal enough to super sting. It wasn't like, yeah, she looked funny.
You know, it was something that was just a little bit annoying. And it was just a great exercise in how am I going to move through this? How am I going to talk through this? How am I going to just kind of keep it pushing?
And I ended up keeping it pushing because at the end of the day, it was like, yeah, they handed out a note because they feel like you have to give an actor something to hold on to, especially when you make it really far in a process. And it's what they thought of. And they have every right.
They have a vision of the character that I only kind of approximated and the vision of the character also being on the producing side of the things. I've seen casting sessions and it was so enlightening because when you go in as an actor, you don't realize how much is happening around you that has absolutely nothing to do with you.
The producer is shaking their head in the corner, not having anything to do with your performance. They're handling some line item.
And so being on the other side when we did Grown-ish and seeing those sessions, I was like, oh my God, this is like the best, this is the best education because it meant that in auditions, I already know there's so much happening and I just happened to walk into the room right now.
And so some of your reaction is gonna be about me, some of it, like you're not even gonna have an opinion about me until I leave the room and you watch the tape the next day because so much is happening.
There's so many times where it's like, oh yeah, that the height doesn't work out because we just cast this person that's really tall or, oh, you know, now that I've seen all these people, I have this new idea for this character. And I may not have even said it in the room, but they're able to, they're allowed to honor their creative instincts because that's their job.
And so I think my job is to honor mine. Yeah.
That's a great question. I think being frustrated. My character, Zoe, for the last 10 years, she's always perplexed about something, always a little frustrated by the people around her for something that they did. And I'm actually proud of her. She voices what she's upset about pretty immediately, all the time. And I think that's something... that I don't always do.
Because I'm working through this again, but I think so much of my personal process is, let's say I get annoyed by something, I go, why am I annoyed by that? Why is that annoying me? And I automatically think of that as just internal work I got to go sort out. And I think there's some truth to that, but I also think there's certain external variables that are just annoying.
The truth and the right to say are annoying.
That's for sure.
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