

So I had to follow my own path.”Ĭoming to that mutual understanding, Ferreira noted was “really freeing for both of us,” despite how much it personally hurt due to her own and the fans’ love of the character “with all her good and bad - mostly bad, which I love.” It also made not just her feel happier but “everyone,” as they could now be free of “press making it into this drama that it’s not” and she could “get to do my own thing.” So for me it actually felt good to be like, ‘OK, I get to not worry about this and we both don’t get to worry about this,'” she continued, “because Sam writes for things he relates to. I just felt like maybe I overstayed my welcome a little bit. “That was actually really hurtful watching and seeing the fans get upset. Sam, me - it was a struggle to find a continuation of her,” the actress explained. “I felt was a kind of a struggle for both parties.


I don’t want to play that and I think they didn’t want that either.”įerreira added that if the opportunity was there and depending on what material she would’ve been working with, she would have continued to play Kat “for as long as I was asked.” But right now, the ensemble’s size, Levinson’s own writing interests and her vision for Ferreira complicated things too much. I really wanted to be able to not be the fat best friend. I don’t know if it was gonna do her justice. I just don’t think it would have fit into the show. “I mean, I think that there were places you could go. “I don’t think there was a place for her to go,” the actress says at one point during the podcast. Netflix Adds HBO's 'Insecure' as 'Six Feet Under,' 'Ballers' Headed to Rival Streamer
