Let’s talk about the main characters; who do they represent in your life?
They’re not one specific friend, but they’re kind of like two or three friends. Whitney is like all of my Taipei friends. I’m an overachiever. My Harvard girls, my banking girls, they all have a certain kind of a thing about them. I am not that rare. It’s just about the commonalities about women that are super driven, that you know, have that perfection, that type A [personality]. Whitney is like those women [who] are just like, “I am together, and I have it together.” Oftentimes, I find in those relationships that the pressure can be really intense. It’s self-inflicted pressure to perform at the highest level in all rooms, all of the time.
Why did you go with Starz?
I wanted the girls to curse and have sex and to talk and sound the way that we do. I quietly have a potty mouth and wanted to be able to accurately portray that. Starz was obviously high on my list. They have the culture and power. They knew how to find us and speak to us and so they were definitely a high target.
