Ayo Edebiri Covers Citizen Magazine
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Novelist Yaa Gyasi interviewed multi-hyphenate Ayo Edebiri to accompany Ayo's cover of Citizen Magazine.
- Ayo is an only child, but she has a large extended family. Her parents immigrated from Nigeria and Barbados as teenagers, and she experienced a mesh of both cultures growing up.
- Thinks that writing your own material is you in conversation with yourself with your own weird specifics, and cities Jacqueline Novak's Get On Your Knees as an example of that.
- On acting: That wasn’t what I thought my path was gonna be. I was planning to be a writer and a comedian and so I think the way that I approach things also is as a writer and a comedian and not as an actress - specifically an actress in a female presenting body, especially a Black woman’s body, I’m like, whoa, this is vile. And I did not consent to this.
I have the mind of a writer and of a fool. And I speak like a fool. I want the jester’s privilege. I miss the jester’s privilege.
And instead, it’s like, ah, you’re a lady ingenue. Or you’re the Black girl that people think X, Y, Z about. And I’m like, none of it is true. I can’t. I just cover my ears because life is long, and a career is magically even longer.
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Novelist Yaa Gyasi interviewed multi-hyphenate Ayo Edebiri to accompany Ayo's cover of Citizen Magazine.
- Ayo is an only child, but she has a large extended family. Her parents immigrated from Nigeria and Barbados as teenagers, and she experienced a mesh of both cultures growing up.
- Thinks that writing your own material is you in conversation with yourself with your own weird specifics, and cities Jacqueline Novak's Get On Your Knees as an example of that.
- On acting: That wasn’t what I thought my path was gonna be. I was planning to be a writer and a comedian and so I think the way that I approach things also is as a writer and a comedian and not as an actress - specifically an actress in a female presenting body, especially a Black woman’s body, I’m like, whoa, this is vile. And I did not consent to this.
I have the mind of a writer and of a fool. And I speak like a fool. I want the jester’s privilege. I miss the jester’s privilege.
And instead, it’s like, ah, you’re a lady ingenue. Or you’re the Black girl that people think X, Y, Z about. And I’m like, none of it is true. I can’t. I just cover my ears because life is long, and a career is magically even longer.
https://instagram.com/p/DBgzXGkP9Y8
https://instagram.com/p/DBja40GvRFN
https://instagram.com/p/DBg1ZjRvTPr
https://instagram.com/p/DBjM96jgYdY
https://instagram.com/p/DBiADuiJDc2
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