"True Whitaker knew she'd find her way into Rachel Sennott's HBO comedy, , long before she knew the project existed. A year before her audition in 2024, Whitaker had put together a vision board that included the logo for Deadline, which reports on casting announcements online, pasted next to an image of Sennott, whose go-for-broke cringe comedy in Shiva Baby and Bottoms she'd admired from a distance."
"As Whitaker would later discover, Sennott was working on a series, initially titled Untitled Rachel Sennott Project, about a group of friends in Los Angeles making their way through the lower tiers of the entertainment industry. Lying somewhere between Girls and Broad City, with more than a little Instagram-age Entourage thrown in, I Love LA follows aspiring talent manager Maia (Sennott) and her complicated relationship with her "It"-girl friend, Tallulah (Odessa A'zion)."
""He was pushing for Milk Bar, and I was pushing for Sweet Lady Jane," Whitaker tells me. "I was like, Wow, this is so L.A.-coded. When my mom was having a baby shower for me, she used a Sweet Lady Jane cake. I would 100 percent take that over Milk Bar any day.""
True Whitaker created a vision board featuring the Deadline logo and an image of Rachel Sennott before auditioning. Rachel Sennott developed a series initially titled Untitled Rachel Sennott Project about friends navigating the lower tiers of the Los Angeles entertainment industry. I Love LA follows aspiring talent manager Maia and her complicated relationship with Tallulah, joined by Charlie and Alani. Whitaker learned of the pilot through a friend, auditioned, and won the role of Alani. Whitaker identified with L.A.-specific details such as a cake-choosing scene. Whitaker is the daughter of Forest Whitaker and Keisha Nash and was raised in a similar environment.
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