The SearchParty star on being different in Hollywood
There’s a theory that humans are wired to find the most standard features attractive because features that hew to a norm take less work for our brains to process. The more noselike the nose — that is, the less it taxes the brain with novelty and variation — the better we like it. It’s the theory that launched a thousand onscreen look-alikes.
“I’ve never been — I always call them ‘clean-haired girls,’ ” says Shawkat. “Like, blonde girls who wear delicate jewelry and their hair always looks really clean. My hair, no matter how much I wash it, just never looks clean.” Growing up, she was always cast as the traditionally pretty girl’s friend. “And that’s how I built my sense of humor. Now I’m like, ‘Oh, I can still be pretty.’ It’s not one or the other.
Shawkat surprised herself by having a good time at the awards anyway. She wound up talking to people about how to make a difference as artists, and about how being Arab-American was something to be proud of instead of something to be greeted with “You can still play white.” Onstage, Shawkat skipped the scripted jokes and opened with an Arabic greeting meaning “Peace be upon you.” She says the awards show was still silly and fun, but it had a new sense of energy and purpose.
After Arrested Development, Shawkat took a break from acting to paint, but in recent years she’s returned with a handful of eye-catching supporting parts — like the 2015 episode of Broad City where, in a perfect piece of casting, she played the Ilana look-alike whom Ilana hooks up with. In November, she took on her first leading role, playing the heroine in TBS’s Search Party.
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