In this week’s episode of The Envelope video podcast , “Lessons in Chemistry” star Aja Naomi King opens up about overcoming her fears about launching a career as an actor and Michelle King and Jonathan Tolins take us inside their popular new procedural , “Elsbeth.” Yvonne Villarreal: Hi, everyone. Welcome to another episode of The Envelope podcast.
I’m one of your hosts, Yvonne Villarreal. Shawn Finnie: Shawn Finnie. Mark Olsen And I’m Mark Olsen.
Villarreal: We’ve got another great episode with two incredible interviews. Shawn, why don’t you tell us who you spoke with? Finnie: I spoke with the multitalented Aja Naomi King. We really, really know her from “How to Get Away With Murder,” but she’s starring in “Lessons and Chemistry” opposite Brie Larson.
Have you ever seen the show yet? Villarreal: Yes. Finnie: To me, it’s a show about dreams and identity. It follows Elizabeth Zott, who is Brie Larson’s character, who has dreams and aspirations to be a scientist, but society is basically saying, “You don’t belong here as a woman.
” And it just follows an interesting time in our American culture in the 1950s, ‘60s. And Aja’s character, to me, is so interesting because she has dreams of her own, but she’s also kind of thrust into protecting her community and she forms this relationship with Elizabeth. .
.. We talked about her upbringing, and honestly, we talked about this too, Mark, what it actually takes to do this job [of] acting.
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