Issa Rae estimates she has 22 TV shows and movies in development

Rolling Stone

Sixteen are for HBO and HBO Max, whose parent company WarnerMedia recently signed her to a five-year deal worth nine figures. "I’m just always thinking about work,” the Insecure star turned megaproducer tells Rolling Stone, her tone sober. She was striving for more balance a few years ago, but now the workload has reached its heaviest. Rae is starting to believe she may just be built this way. “I was always like this," she says. "(In the past) it was like, ‘I need to work to make sure I have the means of affording a place to live.’ (Or) ‘This didn’t work, what’s the next thing I can do?’ I think that’s just how my mind works. That’s Capricorn sh*t. Workaholic sh*t.”