Natalie Oganesyan editorDuring the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards, four-time Emmy nominated actor Issa Rae, creator and star of “Insecure,” recalled her first Hollywood pitch experience, where a studio executive attempted to tell her what Black audiences wanted to see on television.“The executive was like ‘Yes, I saw your show, funny stuff, funny stuff,’” Rae said of pitching her third web series. “And I was like ‘Um, thank you.’ And he was like ‘Yeah, it’s about this Black woman and her Black woman problems, hilarious.’ And I was like ‘That’s not what it’s about, but OK.’” Rae said the executive, who is not Black, told her that Black audiences want to “see familiar faces” and that she might need to “switch up the characters.” “It just became.
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