Yasmine Al Masri

In TV, you don't know everything. The writers only give you scripts before you shoot the episodes. They keep you on your nerve.

I never had planned for my life and my career.

I am especially fascinated with mermaids, and they are always coming out in pirate stories.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

I had siblings from South Asia, from East Asia, from depressed communities around America, and you know, we'd have long conversations.