We're all waiting to return to Atlanta after two lauded seasons, and the wait isn't far away. The FX series created by Donald Glover has finished shooting Season 3 in London, Paris, and Amsterdam, and is currently shooting Season 4 in Atlanta itself.
In the midst of filming, Zazie Beetz, who plays Vanessa on the show, talked to Desus and Mero about how far Atlanta has come.
"All of us got into that show just through basic auditions. For me, when I auditioned for that I was working a full time job and serving. I'm from the city so I was working here [in NYC] in restaurants, and I was just like, 'Oh there's another audition.' We had no idea that it was going to pop off in the way that it did," she said.
"I remember shooting at the end of the first season, me and the director Hiro [Murai] we were like, 'Wow after this, this isn't ours anymore, it'll be everybody's.' And then it became this thing," she added. "Obviously it was Donald [Glover] and Childish Gambino but you still don't know if it's going to work...It's special to me that we all grew up in it together. Our careers, for all of us, really changed and we all share that, so we have that bond. So going back and shooting was really nice."
Beetz also talked about everything else she's recently been working on, including Todd Phillips' polarising 2019 film Joker, her new film with director Edson Oda Nine Days, and Amazon Prime Video's Invincible, adapted from the Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman's comic, in which she plays Amber Bennett.
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