An interview with Ayo Edebiri, Rachel Sennott, and Emma Seligman.
A couple of personal highlights from interview:
Inside, the woman behind the ice-cream counter looks at Sennott with obvious delight as she orders a cup of vegan peanut-butter brownie honeycomb. “Oh my God! I love you on The Idol,” she says. Sennott looks briefly startled, then launches into a cheeky assessment of her performance on the series as Depp’s beleaguered assistant. “I am rocking that blazer,” she says. “Just wearing that blazer every day.”
The same woman turns her gaze to Edebiri. “You’re in …” she trails off, waiting for an assist, her mouth hesitantly forming a B — The Bear? Edebiri stares back at her, not unpleasantly but not helping to jog her memory, either.
Outside, Sennott sighs. “I feel like everyone hated us,” she says. She’s perpetually aware of and concerned about the feelings of everyone in her blast radius. Edebiri, while not exactly comfortable with being publicly perceived, doesn’t seem to adjust to her audience. She raises an amused eyebrow. “No, they literally loved us,” she says.
She also struggled to figure out how to be taken seriously by the crew, many of whom were older men.
“I’d never worked with that many men — that’s not a bad thing,” she says, carefully. The three start talking over one another.
“No, but it’s — ”
“They weren’t all — ”
“Some of them were very lovely, but it was just like — ”
“Yeah, and all of the women were — ”
Edebiri takes a breath. “Asserting authority to these 40-, 50–year-old Teamsters, who, again, many were truly lovely and wonderful, but there’s certain things about power and how power appears that they gave you a hard time for,” she says. “Honestly, it’s also you, your nature and your style, you don’t want to yell at people. Some of those men, or people in general, did not respond to it.”