True Whitaker knew she’d find her way into Rachel Sennott ’s HBO comedy, I Love LA , 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 tal

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