If you love this shirt, please click on the link to buy it now: Shut Up Cris Collinsworth TShirts “I think I brought my own cynicism that people were treated so differently on set,” Adefope says of her Franchise character: “I like Dag to be like, ‘I’m going to treat everyone the same,’ that’s the way it should be.” Like many in Hollywood, Adefope has seen the industry-wide downturn since the successful WGA and SAG strike last year, and she’s aware of the ways the business has changed and (perhaps more importantly) the ways it hasn’t. “Bad behavior can be curbed a little bit, but the hierarchy is so entrenched that trying to intervene doesn’t always work,” Adefope says over coffee. “I hope for representation, but AI just makes me feel hopeless.” (Just before Adefope and I met, California governor Gavin Newsom vetoed an AI safety bill that had the support of many in the entertainment world, including more Hollywood labor icons than Jane Fonda.)
Adefope has been acting since 2015, but a previous internship role for a comedy production company helped her empathize with Dag, she says. “I was like, ‘Maybe I’ll be behind the camera!’ And then I just felt … not so good. Being in front of the camera is easier.” While that’s almost certainly not true for most of us, Adefope has a gift for making it look easy. Her role as