Showrunner Prentice Penny (The_A_Prentice,) who produces the series alongside creator and star IssaRae, is thrilled about the recognition of Insecure but also a little conflicted
From left: Christina Elmore, Yvonne Orji and Issa Rae in the fourth season of 'Insecure,' which saw Molly and Issa’s friendship struggle.
Showrunner Prentice Penny, who produces the series alongside creator and star Issa Rae, is thrilled about the recognition but also a little conflicted. After all,is an all-too-rare example of a series made by Black talent — a fact that's been all the more apparent in summer 2020 as America and Hollywood confront systemic racism.
Yeah, everything changes day by day, week by week. We were supposed to shoot this year — and, like everyone, we got pushed to 2021. We have a lot of contingency plans for 2021, in terms of when we get to start, but we're not steering the ship on that. Two months ago we were OK in Los Angeles and it was New York that was in the toilet. All we can control is the writing right now, so that's what we're focused on.
Without getting into the weeds of what we're deciding to do creatively, the sweet spot of where the show has always existed, where we don't ignore what's happening in the world, but we can take a very micro view of specificity to Los Angeles. Our show started in the Obama age and into the Trump age, so we've threaded a fine line of where the world has been. We never like to give anything too much power. We're not that show.
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