Our top 25 countdown continues. Coming in at number 23, the incomparable America Ferreira.

We spoke well before her Oscar nomination for Barbie, but in this conversation, you're going to hear lots of echoes of her now famous monologue. Take a listen.

Hi. Hi. Good to see you. Good to see you. I'm dressed 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. I loved how it captured not just the quote-unquote

voice of a generation. It was multi-generational. And you cared about 60-something bar owner in the neighborhood

who was about to lose his bar to another ramen shop. It was just funny. And it made me laugh.

And it felt very representative of many different generations. It excited me. It made me laugh and cry. And I was like, I'm in.

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