Chad, was green lit, but she also had a massive reality dawn on her: It was time to step up her . That might seem like a somewhat obvious thing for an actor to think when embarking on a new TV series, but Pedrad's latest role—which she's also the writer and producer for—is far different from anything we've seen the 39-year-old actor in.
For one, she'll be playing a 14-year-old. And, secondly, .“The show's very personal to my life growing up as an immigrant kid,” she tells Glamour. “I love writing about the awkwardness of adolescence, and I thought how to be cool would it be to tell a coming-of-age story where the teenager at the center of it was played by an adult who's in on the joke.
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