“He gets really starstruck,” Edebiri said of her father.
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Ayo Edebiri’s dad is on a mission.
“I don’t even know if I would’ve been able to ask, but I’m sorry.
Ayo Edebiri and Meryl Streep.Credit:Lionel Hahn/Getty;JB Lacroix/FilmMagic
Maybe she’ll see this video.”
Edebiri said that seeing superstars unlocks a different side of her dad’s personality.
“He gets really starstruck,” she said.
Ayo Edebiri with her parents, Dele Edebiri and Helen Edebiri.Ayo Edebiri/Instagram
“We also got cable when I was in high school,” she said.
“So then, it was almost like a switch got unlocked.
I don’t even know how to describe what was happening between me and30 RockandParks and RecandSNLandConan.
We got a DVR, so I would tape episodes ofConanand I would watch them religiously.
Hours and hours ofConan.”
“My dad really loves movies,” she explained.
“I watched a lot of classics with my dad.
A lot of Westerns.
He loves Westerns and Bollywood movies and old Hollywood musicals.
So we would watch a lot of those.”
TheBottomsactress noted that her artistic connection with her dad deepened as a teenager.
“Something changed when I got into high school,” she recalled.
“We watchedPan’s Labyrinthtogether.
I remember we were having a conversation about it.
And then I think that changed something for him, or me.
But then we just started watching everything and we would go to the movies together.”
Want more movie news?
Edebiri’snew thriller filmOpus, which also stars John Malkovich, hits theaters March 14.
Her next film Luca Guadagnino’sAfter the Hunt, which also starsAndrew GarfieldandJulia Roberts willpremiere in October.
