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By Kaitlyn Huamani, Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — True Whitaker wanted to nail her audition for “I Love LA,” or, at the time, the “Untitled Rachel Sennott Project.”

She felt a strong connection to the role and had dreamed of working with Sennott, the show’s creator and star. But on the day when she needed to record her audition, her friends were all hitting the beach, so she only had one person to turn to for help working through the scene: her Academy-Award winning father.

It was the first time True and her dad, Forest Whitaker, had worked together on an audition, and she said they went through the materials for hours. By the end, she says they both felt confident she’d book it.

“He was like, ‘It’d be embarrassing if you don’t get it b

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