Ramy Youssef’s barometer for authenticity: Could a dude in Studio City think of this storyline? Tessa Thompson: You don’t want some guy named Dan to have written it outside of Chipotle Ramy: If Dan could have written this over a burrito bowl, it’s gotta go
You have a way cooler chair than I do. I wish I had a chair on that level — just amazing. I’m so excited to talk to you. What was it like to jump into this thing?I joined “Westworld” at the end of Season 1. I sent in an audition tape for the pilot. I was trying to figure out how to play a robot, and then I didn’t get a call back. I never heard anything about it. Much later, there was this chance to play a human on the show. My first scenes were with Jeffrey Wright and with Anthony Hopkins.
What level of responsibility do you feel, when you know people are looking at you as representing Black women?There is a real feeling of responsibility when you’re the only one. There’s this burden of being exceptional. While I think you are exceptional and I hope I’m exceptional, too, I don’t think we should be the only ones. The work that we do should be inside a diversity of ideas around our identity, because Muslims are not a monolith, and neither are Black people.
But a lot of the stuff you’re hitting on, I wonder how much it factors into the roles that you’re choosing. Now you’re in this place where you have the nuance of choice.There would be auditions [for characters] that were so one-dimensional and in some cases offensive. I wanted to work, but I could never do those parts very well. Breakdowns would say, “25, sexy.
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