But the actress had a lot of reservations about this movie at the beginning. She told Harper’s Bazaar about director Kenya Barris approaching her, “At first, I thought, ‘Hmm, I don’t know, Kenya. Is this the story I want to tell right now? I need to meditate on it.’ He said ‘No, you have to do it. You have to do it.’ He said, ‘Have lunch with me and Jonah and another producer, Kevin.’ ”