To get spiritual with it, I knew from that moment walking across that stage with my degree in acting, I was walking in my purpose that I knew that I was doing something I had been called to do.” Natasha Rothwell and Michelle Obama hug alongisde Craig Robinson during Higher Ground’s “IMO with Michelle Obama & Craig Robinson” podcast during 2025 Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival. One day, she called me into her office with Prentice, and I was just like, ‘Oh Lord, I’m in trouble.’ They were like, ‘We want you to play Kelli’ I cried, because I went from someplace where I was screaming to be seen to another place that saw all of me.” Following the success of “Insecure,” Rothwell got a major development deal from HBO, and from there, she began building the character that would be the focus of her Hulu series, “How to Die Alone.” “I was so thrilled because I was able to create a character that was, in no uncertain terms, a love letter to that unhealed version of myself,” she said.
Author: Aramide Tinubu
Published at: 2025-08-10 19:52:27
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