In contrast to her costar KaMillion, who submitted a video audition for her “Rap Sh!t” position, Osman discovered her method onto the HBO Max sequence by way of one other route: the writers’ room. “We really employed Aida as a author earlier than we forged her within the present, however we simply couldn’t get her out of our thoughts,” Rae beforehand advised Harper’s Bazaar. “After the chemistry take a look at between her and KaMillion, it was a no brainer.”
Osman additionally tells POPSUGAR that one of many foremost causes she obtained tapped to star within the present is as a result of she helped create the character she portrays on display. “You retain writing character traits for Shawna which are particular solely [to me],” she says of constructing her “bizarre transition.” “It was form of unprecedented, actually. I do not know if that is ever actually occurred earlier than.”
