Waithe’s advice to actors going on an audition is to understand that what makes you unique might be the missing “it factor” that the casting directors and creators might not know that they’re missing. She reveals, “Bring whatever you have to the role, rather than trying to fit into whatever that role is because you are going to be like everybody else that come in for the role that day and you aren’t going to stand out. For Aziz and Alan, they were like, ‘We kind of like your take on what this is, because you obviously aren’t straight, you’re obviously not this straighted-laced girl, but there’s something interesting about the fact that you aren’t any of those things and we now want to change the character.’”
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