She also previously interviewed former Biden advisor Symone Sanders and former White House press secretary Jen Psaki. Last year, Zilber interviewed Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg about the infrastructure bill. Michelle Obama wrote Shahidi a recommendation to Harvard, where she graduated in May. There are parallels between Shahidi and Zilber. Zilber describes Lauren as a “good and loyal friend,” and says viewers will think they have her figured out until she makes some surprising choices later in the season. On “grown-ish,” Zilber plays Lauren, a devout Christian student at the fictional California University depicted in the series, with “black-ish” star Marcus Scribner now enrolled, after his older sister Zoey (Yara Shahidi) has graduated. My determination and hard work are character traits that I’ve come to love so deeply. I tell anyone who asks my motto is, ‘Leave nothing to chance’ and if there’s an opportunity that I really want, I quite literally leave absolutely nothing to chance. “I was like, ‘I’m going big or I’m going home.’ I was concerned that on some level I wouldn’t be taken seriously coming from the content world. By December she had enrolled in acting classes five to six days a week, 12 hours a week. When Zilber heard that, she said it was the push she needed. The psychic said her daughter was “going to be a big movie star and she’s going to book a role as recurring guest star on an already existing hit television show. Zilber had no prior acting experience to “grown-ish.” In fact, one year ago, she was mulling over whether to give it a try when her mom had a phone session with a psychic. I feel a little guilty that I was a bit M.I.A.” "So that was really difficult to navigate. “There was really no room for me to make content, especially content that wasn’t related to ‘grown-ish’ when it wasn’t public information," she said. Once filming began in March, Zilber had to be on set every day at 4 a.m.
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