We've spent 20 years watching the rise of America Ferreira.

Real women have curves, sisterhood of the traveling pants, ugly Betty Betty Superstore, to say nothing of her advocacy and political work.

And while we were falling in love with America in front of the camera, she was falling in love with being behind it.

The latest proof of her success, season two of Netflix's Hentified, a show she executive produces. She also direct

several episodes this season. And as America and I tend to do, we jumped into this conversation

at the deep end.

Hi. Hi. Good to see you. Good to see you. I'm just exactly as we were dressed for our last

interview. And you, on the other hand, look very glamorous. So great. Yes. Well,

professionals came and helped me out. Don't worry about it. I am familiar. America, I want to go

back to the origins of Hentified, at least the part where you come in.

As I understand it, you're at a general meeting with Charles King, who's doing incredible work at Macro.

And at the end of the meeting and passing, he sort of says, like, hey, I've got this project.

You might be interested in.

Gives it to you.

Over the weekend, you read it.

You come back on Monday and you're like, yes, I'm a yes.

What was it that jumped out at you that let you know you were such an immediate yes?

I had just never read anything like it before.

It was funny. It was stylish. The humor was both kind of

generational. It was like millennial cool. It was just current, cool, funny, but also had all

the depth of the multi-generational aspect of it, like our funny, scary parents

and their parents.

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