Ihave been with Ayo Edebiri for 15 minutes, tops, and already I’m getting her Pacino.

“What have I been listening to? I’ve been listening to, honestly, the Sonny Boy audiobook,” she tells me, unprompted, after we’ve ducked into her compact car. “You’re literally like, Wait, how is this a book? The way he delivers lines? It’s really shocking. Every actor should listen to that book. He goes—my impression of him is if RFK was raised in the Trump household. It’s like: ‘I had no idea ! My mutha …gave me away …for six months …because my fa tha’ ”—she takes on here the affect of a very sad clown—“ ‘ wasawayinthewar. ’ I’m actually going to pull it up.”

The plan for our morning is almost satirically LA: After meeting at 8 a.m. at a matcha place in Highland Park, she’s to drive us t

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