comedy) are slow dancing and staring romantically into each other's eyes on the Miami set of their EW digital cover shoot — and Orji is doing all she can to make them crack.
"I didn't realize at the [beginning] how important a story like this was," adds Ellis, 39. "It's like, we don't want to watch normal life — but once you get into it, you realize that's important because we need to normalize these things because we don't see them enough." Insecure"It shows Black people just being Black without any extra sauce," says the 37-year-old supporting actress Emmy nominee.
"I just think about the old [advice], 'Write what you know,' and that is what I know. I know myself, to an extent, and my relationships. And the shows that I've loved have a specificity. The shows that I don't like are targeted towards us, try to teach us a lesson, or group us in a certain category, or tell us what we're not supposed to be," says Rae.
"What really stood out [to the writers] is we hadn't seen examples of friendship breakups happen on screen, and I've experienced it twice. That s--- hurts," says Rae. "You don't really have the same sympathy or the same knowledge or guidance that you have when a romantic relationship ends. To really dissect the dissolution — the slow dissolution of a friendship — was something that was relatable to a lot of people.
Issa, Molly, and Lawrence spent the first four seasons searching for satisfaction and stability in their professional and personal lives. That quest becomes even more imperative in the final season, which aims to answer one question:, and when you have insecurities, what you're really saying is, 'I'm not okay in these areas of my life,'" says Penny.
Ironically, Lawrence wasn't even supposed to make it this far into the series. "In my mind in season 1, I didn't know that he would last so long," says Rae. "But Jay brought so much humanity [to Lawrence] and made him so endearing, but also personable and relatable — where everyone knows a guy like that.
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