NEW YORK (AP) — You don't need to major in astrophysics at Harvard to become an actor — but it doesn’t necessarily hurt, either.

“I thought that’s what you go there to do. It’s like why are you paying all this money to go to this fancy school if you’re not going to study a hard science to try to save the world? … But I was quickly humbled,” chuckled Chase Sui Wonders, who began failing classes within her first few weeks. Her college application essay had been about making movies, so she decided she “might as well just pivot back to what I know best.”

That calculated redirection paid off for the magna cum laude graduate who's now a standout cast member of the Emmy-winning comedy “The Studio,” a cynical and satirical take on the film industry.

Wonders, who also starred in the “I Know What

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