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\u201cI always talk about what you’re bringing to the table, standing firm in that. And that is what your unique perspective is that is elevating any project you take on,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd being consistent. Consistency and being someone that people can rely on is a game-changer, and that’s afforded me so many opportunities. When people know that you’re going to show up on time, you’re going to do the work, you’re going to be last to stay with them. Once people recognize that, that goes a long way. Your reputation is everything, especially in this industry.\u201d<\/p>\n
When it comes to working in television, the days are long. Rae notes that being someone that your colleagues want to be around plays a role.<\/p>\n
\u201cMake sure that you’re showing up in a way where people will be happy to say nice things about you when you’re not here, when you’re not in the room. There’s so many people that I’ve thought were incredibly creative, incredibly funny, incredibly just dope, and then I met them and was like, \u2018Oh, I don’t want to be around them. They\u2026 they suck,\u2019\u201d she says with a laugh. \u201cSo do I want to be in a writer’s room with you? Do I want to be on set with you for 15 hours? And so much of being in this industry is just being cool to be around and passing a vibe check.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rae says that when she was up-and-coming as a TV writer, she felt she had to lean more professional and treat opportunities \u201clike a job interview, as opposed to I’m interviewing for a comedy room.\u201d<\/p>\n
She explains, \u201cThat means you show off your charm. That means you show off what you would bring to the character you might identify [with]. \u2018Oh, I could write for this particular character in the pilot, because this is part of my life.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
For more from Rae\u2014including why her career trajectory sometimes feels \u201caccidental\u201d\u2014check out this week\u2019s installment of Nice Talk<\/em>. The episode is available everywhere you listen to podcasts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.marieclaire.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The state of the world does not exactly fill one with hope right now, but according to Issa Rae, that makes it the most important time to be creative\u2014both because of the optimism the work creates, and the optimism that doing the work brings to the creator. \u201cThrough these kind of times when it’s trying, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2049117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2049116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Issa-Rae-Thinks-Now-Is-the-Best-Time-to-Be-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2049116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2049117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2049116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2049116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2049116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}