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Issa Rae

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“Oh man I mean I know I worked hard as hell I still do I work hard as hell but I can't deny that things had to align for this to work out like there's just so many I say it's 70% work 30% like in some ways and that scares me sometimes because I'm like oh my god all these things had to go right for me to be here and I'm so happy I'm here But like I can identify those fork in the road moments where if I had just made a different decision, maybe I wouldn't be talking to you. And I'm very, very fascinated by that, but I also tried not to spend too much time thinking about those moments.”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“My God, yes, there is. And then you think about, you know, the personal life of what kids will do to that and what, you know, expanding and starting a family looks like they're just”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I don't fault people for not knowing in some ways, you know, I'm just happy they're here. Like it has been a journey. It has been a long time. Like even you, again, saying like the. The year difference between awkward black girl and that opportunity with Shondaland sometimes I need that perspective sometimes I forget I've been going at it a long time but it also feels like I'm just getting started and that is what I choose to focus on like the potential in some ways now I feel like I'm running out of time and that that's a different feeling Wow”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I was like, oh, I'm feeling the tension. And she was still trying to roll with it. By the time we got to that ending sex scene, I fake covered her eyes. And she turned to me and she was like, you should have done that a long time ago. And I was like, geez. And even afterwards, she was just like. It's just not for her. And I realized, you know what? I'm never invited for me again because, you know, I'm not really making content for her. When she can get behind it, she can get behind it, but it's in short, it's extremely awkward and it does kind of suck. It's her fault she made me.”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh my God, when I tell you this show, we just had a premiere for Rap Shit and I was sitting next to my mom. Instant regret. Like, I was, I don't know who did the seating, but my mom is very, you know, we were growing up. I couldn't watch PG-13 movies till I was 13, rated our movies until I was 17. Like parental controls were all around the house. And so. The idea that I'm making the content that younger me, when does she shielded me from? She just can't handle, and there is this big sex scene at the end of the second episode during the premiere. We're sitting in this theater. And what sucks is like I watched her watch the first episode and like be into it, laughing. And then I felt her energy change when there was like kind of an explicit scene.”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, I want to an ecosystem right now with the new show on HBO Max wrap shit, that is sort of the prime example of what we're able to do. On the writing team, you know, we have a color creative client who's show running it. And as we shot it, we had color creative directors come on and help direct some of the episodes and just all parts of the company touch it. Radio is also doing the soundtrack. And we just want to be self-sustaining. We want to compete with the best media companies out there down the line. I want to have a studio in South LA. I want to have sound stages and working towards that. But the idea is to be one of the biggest entertainment media companies and expand to Global properties and continue to create content in all forms.”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Helping them to find their next projects, whether it's recommending them to writers' room or initiatives or to write on certain films. And we also wanted to formalize that process. We were finding them representation and in some cases they would come back to us and be like, the representation you found, thank you. It's been great, but not really because they don't really know what to do with me. So we decided to kind of formalize that and make it a management company.”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was like a pipeline initially. It was meant to be a pipeline to Bring in creators of color into the industry using the model that I was able to do with awkward black girl in terms of creating a product, getting an audience around it. Getting the attention of executives to be like, hey. Know you don't have these people in your writers' rooms, but and you're saying that this content doesn't have an audience, but look, we're proving you wrong. And then, you know, some of the writers that came, all of the writers that came out of that have ended up in television in some way, but we, Denise Davis and I, who I co-founded it with, found ourselves really helping.”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because you're just, you have to be by nature. It's not enough to just create. And so to make it official for me was essential for me to continue to do it.”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I have to say with the F word the F word was the first time that I One named my production company. I was like, oh, I am making. And I didn't call it Isai Productions because I was like, I'm just creating internet content. So I called it Isai Presentations. And I was just like, okay, I'm doing something. I'm making a product. I am definitely building something from scratch. I'm marketing it. I'm creating it. I'm funding it in many ways. And this is a product. And I have to sell it. I have to sell it to people and make sure that I have a schedule and I'm abiding by a certain schedule. Like this is my business and I want people to consume this particular product. So I have to have a structure around it. I say anyone creating for the internet is an entrepreneur.”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And being able to say, hey, we want to take some time off. And that time off also allowed some existing writers to explore other projects, which means that we brought in some new writers and that meant new voices.”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It is, but it comes in the curation of people. It's such a collaborative medium, which is what I love about television. And so in that way, like that's what made it, to me sustainable and still fun over the course of five years. It was still exhausting. And one of the things that we realized in the middle of the third season, like HBO, they supported us so much. They were just like, yeah, let's do it. You're renewed. And that meant like we'd finish the season and go right back in without many breaks. What was essential for our show is for me and the writers to live lives because that was the material that went into the show. Yeah. And the advantage of being on a cable network is not being beholden to a specific release schedule.”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean the pilot process was the most rewarding part because because of that fear It was like when we finally got the opportunity to make it like this is our one chance to do it the way we want to do it. We have to set the tone and like let's make the best pilot we can. And they picked that up in days. They picked it up really quickly once we finished it, once we edited it. And we felt like really accomplished. And then after that, it was like, okay, now we just have to write a good season. And that was, you know, its own set of trials and figuring out what our voice would be, how it would be different from anything else on TV.”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Talking about the character of Molly, who was based off of my real life best friend. And I was like, oh, that's interesting. And then what happens if I make it closer to my life at the time? And that's when I was like, I'm putting everything on the table. I'm putting everything I'm going through, everything that I'm feeling in this draft in addition. And that's what they ultimately ended up picking”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so, yeah, then We were like, well, we still want to give you one more chance to write it. And they called me in for a meeting and Casey and Amy were just like, these are the parts that we really like. Like, what was your version of like a Laverne and Shirley look like”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This green light, yes. I was like, okay, well, there's going to be money coming in. And I was like on set for one of those pilots. And I went and walked somewhere and just cried. I was like, I don't know what I'm going to do. I've spent all the money I've ever made in my life on these pilots that don't have distribution. And I can't stop it because these writers are also counting on me and I have no next steps. I blew. I don't have a show. I don't have anything. And I've made a mistake. I put all my eggs in this basket. Well, two baskets.”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, it was called Color Creative, and it was initially it was supposed to be a program for discovering writers. And because of this process, I was like, I don't want writers to have to go through this. I've done the internet model where you can build an audience and you can make a proof of concept. So what if I do this with other writers and produce three pilots for $50,000 each? And I thought I was going to have money coming in. I was supposed to have money coming in. But it fell through and I ended up funding it with everything that I had made at the time.”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They're not doing it, but we had turned in. This is when I cried. We had turned in the last version of the draft before he had to go. And so I got the call from my managers like, this isn't, they're still not happy with the script.”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so that was like his dream job. And by that time, he was also helping with blackish. So I was like, damn, you got all this happening and we're still, I'm still working on this damn show. And I'm going to lose you. And I did. And when I lost him, I thought.”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Initially, they were like, You guys are on the right track. This is dope and gave us notes on that. But we went to script, which was like a big deal. And then even writing that script was really fast. And then that's when they were just like, this is good, but... Them, I just wasn't an HBO show yet. One of the most common questions you get. That'll never leave my mind. But in pilots, there's always that question why today? Why are we coming into this show? And why are we following these characters on this specific day? What is our way in? And then, of course, where are we going? And I, you know, we were working on it for a couple of years and Larry got the Knightly Show opportunity.”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, the way it works is, you know, obviously, the deals take a long time. put in place. So like Larry is an established Writer, creator, and so working on his deal took some time. And so in that time we were meeting up and just having conversations on his rooftop. What I didn't know was that was his process of kind of figuring out what I had to say, figuring out my point of view to lend to this main character. And so that was weeks of just kind of a writer's boot camp, a workshop of sorts that We were able to, from those conversations, write that outline of what the pilot would be in like eight days. And they loved it.”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So after I sold my picture to HBO, they bought this nonprofit idea. Then my managers were like, you know, you're going to need a showrunner. You're going to need someone to help you run the show if it gets picked up. And I was like, oh, okay. And so they suggested that I meet with Larry Wilmore. And, you know, I was a fan of his work. And so we met and we really hit it off. I loved him. And he was just like a strong voice and was just really intent on bringing out my voice. And so then, you know, he was attached to the project and helped me to start to write the pilot.”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Probably, I haven't. I have to check. I have to check. But I definitely remember I don't cry often. But I want to say I cried after that. It was either that or the next HBO failure.”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then it's just like, oh. Yeah, different direction. You know, I was working on a lot of things, so, you know, maybe just don't ask me. Maybe just don't. Do I ask you about your work every day? No. Do I ask you how your projects But no, like it was just really devastating, and I thought it was over for me. I thought nobody's going to want to work with the failure who couldn't make a show with Shauna Rhymes, who couldn't make the layup.”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was the most devastating I blew. I blew it. I blew my one shot. Shots like this don't happen. Often the cards were set up for me to succeed. And I only failed myself. I can't blame anybody but me for this not happening. And it was such a public announcement. I think that's also the embarrassing part of working in Hollywood is you get these announcements of things that are happening and the support. And then they just disappear. While there's not an announcement that it's not going, you still get those questions”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, yeah. And what's crazy is I was prepared to make that show for the internet. And if I had made that show for the internet, I know what it would have been. I know what I would have been able to do. It would have been a series of encounters and dates and sketches. But the way you write that is different than writing a network show, which needs to have a specific format and act breaks. And it needs to play out over seasons and it needs to have multi-character arcs. That was something I didn't quite understand in the same way at the time. Like I didn't really know how to make a good network show yet. I was still in internet mode.”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That is not, that's not the right ingredients to make a good show. And so I was just like, okay, they gave me this note. I'll make the note work. Okay, now the network's giving me this note that conflicts. I will make that work. And it just became a pile of mush. It became a pile of like a show that didn't really have a real point of view. I wasn't represented in it. And I just kind of just didn't know what I was doing. And I credit, you know, Shaunalan. They were just so positive about the experience and positive about working with me and they saw something in me that I just really didn't see in myself. But ultimately, the network passed on the project. And I have not even gone back to revisit that script. I don't even know what it would be.”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And they don't all agree. And so. To someone who just wants to please It can be maddening. And for me, I don't think that I had a concrete vision enough. Was just like, I just want to make a show. I just want to work with these people. And I don't really care about what I'm making. I just want to make with them.”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This was just me. This was me. By that time Tracy was writing on an ABC show. And so it was me working with one of their development executives at the time and directly with Betsy Beers because, you know, Shonda, she's the queen of drama and Betsy was the head of comedy there. And I loved working with them. Their feedback was great. And then it was like, let's submit it to the studio and the network. And that was like a foreign concept to me. So I was like, okay, so the studio and the network are different. The studio gives me notes. I work on them. Give it back to the studio, then it goes to the network. They give me notes, those notes could be conflicting.”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Of course, man. And so that was like, that was amazing to me. And then, you know, it's one thing to get the blessing to do the show and it's another thing to make it. And that was terrifying. Because then it was just like, oh no, I'm going to let Shonda rhymes down.”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Know, I didn't realize that it was a year. That is kind of crazy. But in some ways, it felt like, oh my gosh, this is Is it I'm finally here. This is my opportunity being in that meeting for the first time, I was nervous and they were just so warm and welcoming. Betsy Beers is one of the funniest people ever. And so they put me at ease with. They're jokes, and so once they were like, Oh, we want to do this with you, I was just, I was on Cloud Nine and I worked up the courage to ask Shonda for a picture. And she was like, you want a picture with me? And I was like, yes”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The most exciting thing that happened to me was being able to pitch for Shawneyland. Shauna rhymes to me. Huge inspiration had grays and scandal at the time. It's killing it just as a black woman showrunner and I got to picture her and Betsy. They bought a show idea that I had called I Hate LA Dudes and that was an idea that I pitched on a whim in a general meeting with them that I had just Was going to be my next web series, and they really responded to it. They laughed and they were like, yeah, we want to develop that with you. And then, you know, I got the grand announcement that I was going to be doing, developing Shana Rhyme's first comedy. And that was a big deal to me.”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Is all that's in me, and so even with awkward black girl being successful, I was like, this wasn't just me. And let's make sure that everything else is amplified. Amplify other characters. And let's also make sure that, you know, this person is highlighted and taken care of. And let's increase all the other factors because it couldn't have been me. I don't know how to properly explain it, but that's something that I've realized I do even, you know. In other words, and it took a realization and even other people to just Of make me focus like this is there's something that you did, and you have to focus on that, and you have to embrace that. It's you.”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Increased my anxiety for sure. I mean, as these things go, you're like, oh, now people have expectations. They're like, oh, you got money now? Oh, Pharrell's message to you. I know y'all better come hard. I felt that in so many ways. Started realizing this about myself, but sometimes. When things are successful, I will minimize my part in that and Attributed to other things. Part of it is the imposter syndrome of it. Part of it is just the fear that you have one good idea and this is it.”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It meant we were funded. Yeah. It meant that we could. Properly pay people. It meant that we could budget. It became an actual production, you know, the second season we were actually able to. Pay people like a legitimate rate. Like it was a production. And they weren't like getting rich off of it, but it was like, okay, I'm being compensated properly for my work.”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was extremely mind-blowing. We had already gotten like. Know some great celebrity support. Gabrielle Jungan, I want to say, was one of the first people to like. Support it and spread the word about it. Ava was an early supporter, but Farrell was the first person to call me and be like, I want to. I want to figure this out. And he had this, you know, when Google did the 100 channels and gave. Various creators, whether they were YouTube stars, established musicians that gave channels and they put funding behind those channels trying to make like the new TV on the internet. He had one of those channels and was able to fund our second season via his I am other company.”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, unfortunately, I was not. I wasn't aware of that. I released it on Facebook to my friends and I didn't really try. And it was my friends and the network of friends who spread the word. And yeah, you can amplify that. You can do things to amplify that. But if something is good to people, they're going to talk about it. And that's going to be the main source of your eyeballs, your support.”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We released it the first Thursday of every month. And that was like a release schedule. I just came up with it. When I was, when I released the first episode, I just, I was like, okay, I did it. Got ahead of the idea. Got it out there. And then Matt episode got like 25,000 views in the first week, I want to say. And I remember the guys from the F word hitting me up like, what? How is this getting more views in this show we've been doing for four seasons? Five seasons now, and I was like, I don't know. It's just, I guess people are really identifying with it. And now I have to do another one. And so. It was just, yeah, it really spread by word of mouth in the best way”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And we asked for $30,000 and then over 30 days, you know, people almost helped us to raise almost $60. And that's when it felt like, wow, people care about this show. Like, you know, and we didn't give an ultimatum, but before this episode that we knew would make an impression, we put like a, we basically asked our audience, we told them like, this has been for free. You gotten seven episodes and we can't afford to make this any longer. So if you want to continue to see this show and you want to support us, please give us whatever you can.”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“My friend at the time was telling me about Kickstarter, and I dismissed it. I was like, I'm not raising money online. That feels so desperate. And then our cinematographer, Shay, he brought it up and was like, I heard it. Have you heard of this thing called Cake Started? And that's when I took it serious. I was like, okay, more people are saying this. Maybe this is a viable way to try to raise money.”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, the first few episodes, I was, it was just friend favors, right? So those first three episodes. And by that time I had cast my friend Tracy to play my nemesis. And she was in school for producing. So she was like, let me help you produce this and let's bring on a real crew, write the scripts in real format. And so she got a crew. Via favors to start helping me and just elevated the look of the show. And that's what started getting expensive.”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“From the camera, okay. Yeah, and editing it and my little brother, I asked him to create the music for it because I wanted it to have score. I wanted to feel like as real of a show it could, but the... The specificity of like this is for the internet was in my mind. I was like, I'm not going to try to make this a real TV show. I'm not going to, it's not going to be long. It's going to be short. It has to be short, but it was very produced for the internet in a way that my other projects weren't. I wasn't aware like all the lessons that I had learned from making those other two web shows, I applied to this.”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Do I really want to be in this? Do I want to be at the mercy of the internet in the same way I've seen my little brother and his friends be at the mercy of the internet? Am I ready for that? Can I take that? And ultimately getting the idea out there was more important to me than being scared of being judged on the internet.”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Now, I just wanted to be out before I'm kicking myself because someone else didn't wait. And so once I was like, this has to be out then, the notions of perfection went out the window. I still like was like, okay, I'm still going to make sure that it's funny and good to me before I put it out there, but I'm less precious about it being completely perfect. And that came down to even casting myself because I wanted someone else to be to play awkward black girl. The lead in Dorm Diaries is who I wanted. To play Akka Black Girl, she was in DC. She was in law school and she couldn't do it. And then I hadn't acted in so long. The fear of putting myself out there was holding me back again. I was like, oh.”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That was asking for my character that I imagined in my head, the black lizard lemon. They were like, where is the black lizard lemon? And where are these quirky black characters? And that lit a fire in my ass because I was like, Like, if I'm reading this, someone else is going to read this and do my idea before me. I can't wait for this to be done in the way that I think it's supposed to be done. Like, it can be a live action series. And I can just make this for the internet and just get it out there for now.”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, so as you know, sometimes you'll write something down and be like, oh, that's something, but I'm not ready for it yet. But it's something and I'm going to come back to it and it'll just Staying your head, it'll pop up occasionally when you're working on something else. And for me, I had a vision. I told you I had the initial idea to do t-shirts and then ultimately a couple weeks later it was like, maybe this is an animated series. And I was stuck on that. I was like, oh, I want to do an animated series for this. And oh man, animation costs so much money. I'm not ready for it yet. And so. Again, kept working, kept working, and then this article came out.”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, seven seasons over, I want to say three to four years. But like to go back to you, there's still a point where you're like, okay, this is bad. This is not great, but you're still encouraged by the fact that you're. You're doing it and you feel good about doing it. I'm not sitting back. And it's like I know that I'm only going to continue to get better. There's something satisfying in that, and then at one point Sit back and you're like, I think this is good I think I did something, and the satisfaction of creating something from scratch and even just having the idea and executing it is like no other to me.”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Was but it was so fulfilling because it was like mine, it was their talent. But my work was such a good bootcamp for me. Know, I really cherish that time.”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I wrote outlines to their credit. So I give them the story points where to go, but I never told them what to say. They just got it and they would improv their way through those story points and I'd edit it together and stay up editing it and make sure. Night and make sure that it come out at the same time every Monday morning, Ford Mondays.”
2022-09-26 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HOORAE: Issa Rae · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And when I was on that music video set, they were so funny together. You know, I was just like, y'all are talented, but you're also funny and you're funny together. I want to make like a show around you.”
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