In her sequence, The way to Die Alone, Natasha Rothwell explores one of many scariest notions we people encounter throughout our existence: “being alone.”
Properly, she’s acquired a solution for that. Rothwell needs you to like your self, interval.
“If you happen to cease prioritizing romantic love over other forms of affection—self-love, platonic love, familial love, and so forth.—you’ll start to acknowledge the love in our lives that we’ve regrettably ignored,” she stated of the lesson she’s realized from creating and starring within the sequence.
“In doing that, your life will turn out to be inherently richer.”
Rothwell performs Mel, a self-described “broke, fats, Black JFK airport worker” who virtually succumbs when the bookshelf she simply constructed falls on her and knocks her right into a concussion. It catapults her on a journey to take flight and begin residing by any means essential.
Rothwell relished the chance to delve into discovering your happiness and depicting that search by way of a real-sized lady onscreen. “Feeling seen is a basic a part of belonging. And to belong is what makes us really feel like we matter,” she shares with EBONY.
“I hope those that see themselves in me really feel that they’re beloved and matter and are worthy of getting their tales mirrored and instructed…Mel is the unhealed model of myself in my early twenties. The present is form of a love letter to her saying, ‘I see you, and I thanks.’”
Rothwell tapped into one thing else that made her really feel alive whereas engaged on her sequence.
“After I was given the possibility to have my very own present, I needed to take advantage of the chance—I didn’t wish to pull any punches. So, I dove headfirst into the factor that scared me essentially the most—dying alone,” she says.
It didn’t damage that she additionally had a real-life jarring expertise whereas pitching her comedy.
“I had an allergic response to aspirin round that point that landed me in pressing care alone. So, it was just like the universe was begging me to face my fears.”
Catch the season finale of The way to Die Alone on Friday, September 27, on Hulu.
