When Jay Ellis got the itch to direct, he did not go the route of so many actors before him and simply ask. He wanted to be prepared.
So the Insecure star firstshadowed his own director and producer, Melina Matsoukas, back in 2017, then visited the sets of Silicon Valley, Black Monday and Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
He also took filmmaking classes. Ellis' lengthy prep was put to the test for the seventh episode of season four of Insecure, "Lowkey Trippin'," which followed Yvonne Orji's Molly on vacation with her new boyfriend (Alexander Hodge) and required Ellis to film on a zip line and location scout in Mexico during briefbreaks from acting in Los Angeles on the HBO comedy.
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