Interview: 'Insecure' Actress Natasha Rothwell

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🗓️ 25 September 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

It's Tuesday: Sam talks with Rothwell, who plays Kelli on the HBO show Insecure. Kelli is loud, proud and loyal — and she owns the screen when she walks on. Rothwell tells Sam about going from writing to acting and co-executive producing the show, auditioning for Saturday Night Live, plus, teaching high school drama. Get tickets to our Los Angeles live show with Guy Branum and a surprise guest at kpcc.org/inperson.

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0:00.0	From NPR, I'm Sam Sanders, it's been a minute.
0:08.8	It's Tuesday and I have a conversation for you.
0:11.1	Today I'm talking with Natasha Rothwell.
0:14.1	She joined me at NPR West Studios in Culver City.
0:17.0	A lot of you know Natasha from her role as Kelly on HBO's Insecure.
0:21.9	This character, Kelly, is in my opinion the funniest character on a show full of funny
0:26.8	characters.
0:28.1	Kelly is this loud and unapologetic and hilarious, driven black woman who was part of this
0:32.9	friend circle of strong black women trying to make it professionally and personally
0:37.8	in LA.
0:39.0	And Kelly isn't the lead on the show, but every scene she's in, every scene she steals
0:44.7	the show.
0:45.7	The third season of Insecure comes to a close this weekend on HBO and Natasha and I
0:50.6	talk all about the show and our chat.
0:53.0	We also talk about how she went from being a writer on Insecure to becoming one of the
0:56.9	show's stars.
0:58.5	We talk about how a character like Kelly who was outspoken to the infigree.
1:03.4	How that character is actually not what Natasha is a lot of the time in her real life.
1:07.9	We talk about what it's like to work on a show that is consumed and sometimes torn apart
1:12.0	in real time on Twitter, on everything from breakups to make up to sex.
1:17.7	And we talk about what Natasha did before Insecure.
1:20.5	She taught high school drama and she got a writing job on SNL through a secret black woman
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