Yara Shahidi
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547 appearances
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2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 10 Apr
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And so I think I've been on a journey of finding the middle ground of like, I can't always internalize, oh, there's something about that that made me angry. Why am I angry about that? Let me go figure that out at my own time. It has nothing to do with that person. Sometimes it has something to do with that person. And it's important to voice that.
And so my character does a really good job of that. And I think in many ways it's what's fun about playing a character that's so opposite of who I am for so long. It's like I wish every teenager, imagine going through puberty and having an alternate world with no consequences where you got to just be a different person.
Like it's a real treat to be like, oh, I never am inclined to yell in real life, but here I am on set screaming. That's kind of fun. Yeah. I get paid to do this?
I think anecdotally it's the feeling of have I peaked? Because there's always that feeling of why is this coming? Sometimes I deal with the question of why is this coming easily? Why is this coming easily? You know, I've had – I've just felt very lucky in that – I wasn't the kid that woke up and said I had to be an actor. For me, it was I have a creative urge and instinct.
I started in printing commercials. I said no to auditioning for my first movie when I was seven because I'm like, I love printing commercials. I go play. Like I play and half the time I'm playing with my family.
Yeah, I'm taking photos or a commercial like you're hula hooping. You're biking. You're just doing different things. Yeah. And so when I had done my first movie at seven, I think what it unlocked in me, again, wasn't even the instinct of, oh, I have to do this for the rest of my life. But was that was a lot of fun. I learned how to ice skate. I got to make pancakes.
I got to work with these cool people. That was super fun. And I think because, again, I've always had this diversity of interests. In some ways, as much as I think every actor, and I'm always dealing with rejection and misdirection, it's come kind of easy. In that, I'm like, I've gotten to go to school and be on a show. That's unheard of. And they made it happen. It took a lot of work.
But after a call, they were on board. There was no convincing that had to happen. I think if it wasn't for COVID, they were going to move the entire shooting schedule to the summer. So I just had an unencumbered year. Again, unheard of. And that comes from everybody from the president of ABC to the president of Signature to the president of... Wow. To the line producer all working in tandem.
I think that's the flip side feeling of like, is this right? Is this right that it comes with ease? But I think... I've started to realize ease is the alignment.
Yeah, when there's alignment, there's ease. And I think... The thing I've been and my family's always been is pretty discerning. There's still ways to become more discerning, but I think – I was like, oh, some of the ease is because there's been such a discernment of pretty immediately. Like, oh, that's not for us.
Mm-hmm. And, I mean, there have been challenges within that, but for the most part. I'm like, the fact that macro, I'm not walking out with any crazy stories about being on set as a child actor. Yeah. I'm not walking out with any crazy traumas from 10 years on set. Like, I'm like, how lucky.
Yeah, you hear all these other stories. You know, I have a family that takes pride in us as individuals, both me and my brothers, handling our money and having a grasp of money management. So I'm like, we've never had a fear that one day it's going to be gone. because I know where it all is, you know?
I was doing an interview about money yesterday and they were like, so what were your money troubles? And I'm like... You got to see how I was raised. Again, I feel so lucky. I was raised with a family that was so intentional about being like, we want you to feel in charge and autonomous and we're here to guide you.
But I was going, mommy set it up so I'd go make friends with accounting at Black-ish and I'd go pick up my check every week, where typically you don't see it as an actor. It gets sent to your team. And then you see kind of the end result. I got to see it. I got to see how much the percentages were. I got to see... what the taxes were, and I was able to check.
I remember one time there was the wrong amount on my check, and I was savvy enough at 14 to be like, hey, this isn't the right amount. They're like, oh, yeah, you're right. So I'm saying, again, it is easy to feel guilty, to be like, why have I had it so good in the general scheme of things? And I really couldn't tell you why, but I think I'm coming to terms with the fact that
Even on this road to self discovery, I do have to say I've known myself pretty well. And so I'm realizing that some of this is the result of having known myself and continuing to learn myself.
They let me do so quirky. It's amazing. It did not cross my mind.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think... I mean, part of it... Like intense work and effort, but not extreme adversities. Yeah. And I think... For me, there are two things I realize. One, I think I minimize maybe some of the challenges I do face.
I think some of it is that because I've moved through it, eventually sometimes I think my ability to look back with the rose-colored lenses, I'm like... No challenges. Yeah, wasn't that hard?
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