Harris also discusses the process behind adapting 'The Other Black Girl' for television and expanding Hazel's backstory from the book.
When Zakiya Dalila Harris' book The Other Black Girl was first released in 2021, it was an instant hit. Inspired in part by Harris's own background and industry experience, the novel follows the character of Nella Rogers , who discovers a strange and long-standing conspiracy within the publishing company she works for.
I definitely want to talk about some of the changes that the show makes, but going back to the beginning, when this was an idea that you were coming up with: What was your inspiration for The Other Black Girl? Going back to publishing, there's also something about working in offices, pre-COVID especially. Having worked in many offices before, oftentimes not a boss — usually, I've been an assistant, or I've worked in the basement, in a doctor's office, as a barista — I just think there's so much hilarity in seeing the same people every day or every week and being in the trenches the way that Nella and Hazel are when they meet.
The horror conversations came, honestly, when I was first talking to producers. Even before the book was published, if I'm not mistaken. I know that's something that readers have talked a lot about, saying the genre element comes out of left field, and I always find it really interesting.
I wanted this story, when I was writing the book, to feel complicated and not have a right answer, but when you add the fact that Hazel's working for not just herself, she's trying to make money for her mom and probably for her brother, she's got all these other people counting on her, it makes it murkier and more interesting. Because I had so many other perspectives in the book, I didn't even have the mental space to think about giving Hazel a voice at the time.
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