Actress Olivia Washington stars in Boots Riley's surreal series 'I Am a Virgo' as a speedy fast food cook who falls for the show's 13-foot-tall hero.
Flora is also Cootie’s love interest, although Washington thinks that title is a little reductive for the character that Riley has sketched out.
Several weeks before the show’s release, Washington is at the Gansevoort Hotel’s rooftop, taking in the downtown Manhattan view. The young actress has lived in New York since graduating from NYU’s Tisch School five years ago, but it was her first time seeing the city from that distinct Meatpacking District perspective.
Riley has described each character in the story as being reflective of parts of himself, and Washington similarly related to the universality of her character’s experience — despite her “The Flash”-esque superpower. “So the wild thing is, I was very shy,” says Washington, who grew up taking classes with industry figures like Eartha Robinson and Vernee Watson-Johnson, all women of color. “They really just pushed that door open, because they saw something [in me],” she adds. “It was from that point that being an artist was really a part of my identity.”
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