Issa Rae On Adulting, Oversharing And Her HBO Show
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Issa Rae is the creator and star of HBO’s Insecure, a show about 29 year-old, her best friend, and their life choices. Issa tells us why we can’t all be Olivia Pope, how her new show reflects her own personality, and how a life crisis in your 30s is more interesting than one at 22.
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| 0:18.6 | I'm Tricia Bobita. |
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| 0:20.6 | Thanks for listening. |
| 0:21.7 | Last week we talked with the showrunners of HBO's high maintenance. at on the interwebs and then was picked up by HBO. This week it is |
| 0:33.0 | ESA Ray. She is the creator of Insecure and she's only 31 but she has |
| 0:37.1 | gotten a lot done in her young life. In the show Insecure she plays a |
| 0:40.7 | slightly fictionalized version of herself. |
| 0:43.4 | It's about her and her best friend trying to figure out who they should be dating, |
| 0:47.7 | whether they hate their jobs enough to quit them, |
| 0:50.0 | all sorts of those questions that happen to you in your early 30s in your late 20s |
| 0:53.8 | because adulting is hard because adulting is hard and |
| 0:56.6 | ESA Ray has done it well in her life she's learned a lot from success and also from |
| 1:01.2 | some failures which she'll talk to us about including the |
| 1:03.7 | ABC pilot that she worked on with Shonda Rhymes that almost made it to our |
| 1:07.7 | television sets but you know what maybe it's good that it didn't because maybe we |
| 1:11.4 | wouldn't have gotten insecure and I'm really |
| 1:13.0 | happy that we have insecure yes we're actually going to listen to a little clip of |
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