Like many of you, I have been following Julie Sakadarum since her early days at BuzzFeed

when she was producing and starring in so many of my favorite videos.

And I have rooted for her as she has gone on to bigger roles, including Jessica on Netflix's

Hentified, a role that was rewritten and reimagined for her.

We're going to get into that.

I want to tell you, this is not one of those stories of someone who landed in L.A. and

poof, magic hit. No, this is a story of those stories of someone who landed in L.A. And poof, magic hit.

No, this is a story of a lot of near misses, a ton of hustling, and allowing your truest, most authentic self to shine.

In preparing for a conversation, I've read pretty much every interview you've ever done.

What I don't have a good sense of is how you grew up.

I mean, I hear you grew up between New York and Miami.

Give me a sense of what that childhood was like.

I was a happy kid.

I actually grew up really mostly in Miami.

I moved to Miami when I was five or six years old.

So for me, I don't really remember much of New York except for like my experiences with my grandma.

But I grew up as a happy kid, man.

I was very much this person, which is so weird.

But I remember, like, the things that I would do and the ways that I was and the people

that I was friends with.

And I was always this person, just a smaller version, less mature.

I grew up in the hood.

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