Kamala Harris' vice presidential debate performance influenced Simone Missick on All Rise

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“Watching Kamala having to appear pleasant so as not to appear angry, I think every woman that understood what that was like, especially Black women, were angry, and yet celebrated the way she handled it,” says Missick. “But I called Dee Harris Lawrence, our showrunner, and I said, ‘I can’t do these scenes the way that they are’, because I felt like there was an ambivalence within Lola. So, as much of it was on the page, the writers also really helped to flesh out some of the ideas and feelings I was having, because I really struggled with that episode, wanting to make sure that the perspective of Black people in America, and specifically Black women, were felt.”