Alia Shawkat
Alia Shawkat
Alia Martine Shawkatis an American actress. She starred as Maeby Fünke in the Fox/Netflix television series Arrested Development, and as Gertie Michaels in the 2015 horror-comedy film The Final Girls...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth18 April 1989
CityRiverside, CA
CountryUnited States of America
physically
I think for a girl to be strong, it doesn't have to involve being physically strong.
figure
Mitch Hurwitz was like a father figure to me. He was so sweet, and he's just so smart.
kids popular
If you want to do something, then you do it. If you don't want to do something, don't just do it because your friends are doing it, or because all the popular kids are doing it.
dependency work
As an actress, you never know when you're going to work again - and there's so much dependency on working.
commenting drawn happening roles
I guess I've always been drawn to roles that have smart characters commenting on what's happening around them.
network
In my opinion FOX is known for being a network that just advertises, and that's pretty much how they get their viewers.
great
It would be great to do theater one day, but I don't think I'd do a musical.
showing
With independent film, as an actor, you have more involvement - it's very much more connected. It's not just like I'm showing up and there's another actor on the call sheet; you're very attached to it.
love
But I love singing, and I've been singing backup for friends' bands.
mom script
When I get a new script my mom will read them and just be aghast. I think it's hysterical.
leads
On American TV, there just aren't a lot of female leads in comedy, especially at the peak of all the Judd Apatow stuff.
dropped lived moved originally turned
Right when I turned 18, I moved to New York, originally for school, and then dropped out and just lived in New York.
amazing female good guy worked
Yeah, I've worked with a couple of female directors, now, and I think that they're amazing. As good or better than guy directors.
art general presented public
I think with the whole new Internet media, I'm not necessarily Internet savvy, but I just feel that the way that art in general will be presented to the public is going to be different.