Alia Shawkat, through the mirror, what the research party representative learned from her tabloid year.

Last fall morning, happily stoned and drawn alone at her art studio, Alia Shawkat realized that her name was popular on Twitter.

Alia Shawkat, through the mirror, what the research party representative learned from her tabloid year.

Last fall morning, happily stoned and drawn alone at her art studio, Alia Shawkat realized that her name was popular on Twitter.

 The photos of the actress who came out of the Los Angeles Theater alongside Brad Pitt were just posted, and both the basic and noble Internet segments were ostensibly. "I was like, I can't believe it," says Shawkat in late May from her sunny kitchen in Los Angeles, where she woke up just before 11:30 am, pulled on a bright blue sweater. She looks glowing and a little sleepy. As she tells the story, she alternates between smoking a cigarette and sipping green juice, and sometimes leans with a lighter big blue. She says, "All my friends used to say" What is happening? “Send me pictures.” I felt exhausted. It is a feeling of shame in school, like, oh my God, everyone is looking at me. "

Blurry photographers began in earnest after Shawkat, 31, and Pete, 56, were spotted at that stage, at Mike Perpiglia's solo show, at the Thundercat party, in the In-N-Out burger, at one of Shawkat's showrooms and at Oprah Kane West. The photos will be completely mundane - laughing, hugging in fedora and matching jackets or quietly thinking of the fast food menu - if not for the fact that Pete's dating life has long been sliced ​​by the enthusiasm of a billion rude scientists.

To get her out of the way: “We are not dating.” Shawkat says, “We are just friends. (I believe her, only if she is very honest about how centuries it was during closing).” She got a press, but not like that, she adds, the rough baritone level that bothers her. "It is not difficult to control."

However, in early June, when Shawkat started trending on Twitter again, this type of trivial journalism seemed a favorite of her. In 2016, Shawkat appeared on a billboard in the southwest of the southwest. A clip of the interview appeared in the news after a Twitter user found him and summoned Shawkat, citing a Drake song that included the word N. Shawkat immediately apologized. "I am very sorry and I take full responsibility," she wrote. "It was a moment of neglect, a moment of shame and embarrassment, but she pledged to continue learning from. I regret using a word that carries a lot of pain and history to blacks, because it is not a word used by a non-black person."

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A few days after the video appeared, Shawkat and I appeared again. She told me that the recall was "modestly intense", which is a worrying reflection of herself that she could not cope with with her self-image. Although the publicity resulting from Pitt's pictures was annoying for Shawkat, the whole thing was ultimately positive from the image perspective, but the type of publicity that a celebrity paid a lot. But the second round of public attention - a video of her with heavy dangers - was painful, especially for the strange, colorful woman (Shawkat Al-Iraqiya) who has long considered herself a progressive ally, talking frankly about Palestine, attending the Black Lives Mater protests, and recently calling for the abolition Police financing. She says, "I didn't remember saying that." I was like, "This is impossible. What the hell are they talking about? "

Shawkat has been an actor since the age of nine and has lived in public places since childhood, a recognized experiment that can lead to self-breaking. She always tried to separate her public photo from her own, but watching the SXSW video was the first time I had a clash between the two places with enough force to shake her. She says, “I used to say,“ My God, to the audience I am a racist living with Brad Pitt. ”I have tried the past 48 hours to get my soul back. And I said, "What is this? Who are you to yourself, your people and your community?"

Throughout most of her early career, Shawkat was known primarily for her role as Maebe, the offending being for her cousin's lust in the long-running series Arrested Development. In the years that followed, she reverted from independent drama to neo-Nazi horror films to her current role in the Millennium Copper Comedy Research Party, which started as a TBS series and moved to HBO Max in June. Her third season revolves around a subject particularly timely for Shawkat: the fame and dirty side of fame. She plays the role of the hero, Dory, who has grown over the seasons to become a scandalous self-inflated girl, and flatters both the press and the courts as she tries to kill her in the first season. Dory acquires the attention she gets from "fans" and photographers standing outside her apartment. It falls through the glass of its overview

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