Oh my god ... you’re right ... i didn’t realize her dad was a celebrity photographer! That’s so fucked up... these children of celebrity photographers have unfairly been given advancements in Hollywood for far to long... enough is enough! thank you for shedding light on this outrageous injustice. I know longer think she is beautiful funny or entertaining. Your opinion is now mine. And I hope one day we can get all her followers and fans of grownish to realize her for the fraud she is. And all this time I just thought the reason they gave her a spin-off before junior was because she was the oldest and first to move out the house and that it wasn’t clever nod to pay homage to A Different World. Damn. Thanks for enlightening me. But seriously you should pitch a Junior spin off to Kenya Barris lets get that ugly untalented boring girl off our screens!!! I’m sure if more people knew she was merely the daughter of a celebrity photographer shed loose all her followers and endorsement deals hey maybe even get her recast!
I hope you stretched before all that reaching for this casual oversimplication and complete straw man response.
Yara is a beautiful girl. (Your obsession with her looks is odd, especially when NO ONE has mentioned that whatsoever). More importantly, though, she’s also extremely talented: as a speaker, thinker, advocate, representative for her generation, and general public figure. I can see her entering many fields with great success and ultimately being a positive force of change in the world. She has a wonderful heart and a brilliant mind for her age. She is NOT however a talented actor, in my opinion. Multiple things can be true.
Her father isn’t merely a “celebrity photographer”. In addition to being a well-known music videos and commercial producer, he was the personal photographer of Prince, one of the most iconic artists in music history. You’ve also conveniently left out that her cousin is Nas, one of the most popular rappers and legendary musicians ever. Those kind of connections open doors, whether you’d like to admit it or not. It gives her an instant link to a network of high-power decision makers & an understanding of how the industry works. All of which have no doubt benefitted Yara. Oversimplifications and lack of nuance are not wise.
And while Grown-ish may have been a nod to A Different World (the eldest daughter going off to college)...the fact that Barris (and Disney) even developed that idea and made that decision in the fist place is telling, especially considering that Yara is one of the least experienced on the show and her character was one of the least popular.
Everybody’s not going to feel the way you feel. Everybody won’t think the way you think. You have your thoughts, I have mine. You can continue with the gross simplifications and misrepresentations of what I’ve said. Or, conversely, we can agree to disagree.
But can we please not derail this thread as others so often are. Generally, this is one of the few threads that doesn’t contain foolery.
