I’ve been following Issa since college.
My friend—he literally told me,
“You should watch Awkward Black Girl on YouTube
because that’s you.”
And I was like, “Okay.”
So I was fortunate enough to be cast in the background of “Insecure.”
Catch me… actually go back and watch a couple of episodes.
Catch me in the back eating a salad.
Probably see the back of my head.
Issa is the bomb.
I don’t know why I said it like that.
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So the first look is very early Issa like her YouTube days.
She was very self-produced and very up and coming and very new and fresh.
So that reflected in how she wore her makeup and everything like that because I don’t
think it was about that.
It was about the work.
Woo!
Los Angeles is so dirty.
I’m not that nerdy.
If you want to know my name, I ain’t still the same.
You don’t care about me.
La da dee. Yeah!
I don’t know what else to say.
I don’t know what’s happening.
I’m basically spray painting your hair.
For this look, you can tell that she was very confident in what her point of view was and what she
was trying to tell people.
And that says a lot in what she was wearing.
This was the moment that everything was happening.
Everything that she really worked for was coming into place.
Whoa!
My hair looks so different colored.
I like it though.
It’s so different and more like glamorous.
I feel like…
Oh!
I can walk on the red carpet.
I can say, “Hey Oprah! What’s up?”
It’s still natural like...
Does that make sense?
This last look is from this year’s Golden Globes when Issa was nominated for Best Actress
in a Musical or a Comedy.
She’s basically on top of the world.
She’s a force to be reckoned with.
And she’s at the top of her game.
(Off-screen) Your face.
Issa, in this look, looks amazing.
She looks fierce, on top of the world.
I was like, “Oh my gosh.
I see a woman who looks like me
who is similar in regards to loving comedy, and writing comedy, and producing
—being recognize by Hollywood, of all places.
I’m really excited to see this look.
I don’t know what I look like.
Oh man.
Okay.
What?
That…whoa!
That’s so cool!
I think it was just so cool to see where she started and where she is now and how she went
through different stages and different things and worked so hard to deserve the glow up
that she has gotten into.
Yeah, it's cool.
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