Unlike her costar KaMillion, who submitted a video audition for her “Rap Sh!t” function, Osman discovered her manner onto the HBO Max collection by way of one other route: the writers’ room. “We really employed Aida as a author earlier than we solid her within the present, however we simply couldn’t get her out of our thoughts,” Rae beforehand informed Harper’s Bazaar. “After the chemistry check between her and KaMillion, it was a no brainer.”
Osman additionally tells POPSUGAR that one of many fundamental causes she received tapped to star within the present is as a result of she helped create the character she portrays on display screen. “You hold writing character traits for Shawna which can be particular solely [to me],” she says of creating her “bizarre transition.” “It was sort of unparalleled, truthfully. I do not know if that is ever actually occurred earlier than.”