Yara Shahidi has landed her own spinoff show.
The actress talked to Jacques Morel for AOL’s Build Series about what viewers should expect from her “Black-ish” character, Zoey, who’s going off to college in the ABC hit show. The 17-year-old said the spinoff will explore Zoey’s new life at college and her growth along the way.
“One thing that I had noticed in reading the script is that … while she is a young black girl in this political climate, she does have the privilege of being socioeconomically well-off,” she said. “College, at least for Zoey, is no longer a factor she can hide under or hide with. And so we’re no longer talking about race but the intersection of race and gender and sexuality and the intersection of race and politics. And she finally has to kind of deal on her own.”
Though production recently filmed the pilot, as mentioned during the interview, the network has yet to release many details about the show, including the name.
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