here are worse places that a rising star can find themselves than at loose ends in Europe in July. In the middle of summer 2023, as the Screen Actors Guild joined the writers’ strike, every actor who was abroad for a gig suddenly found themselves abroad without one. In this group was the actorwriter-comedian Ayo Edebiri, 28, who, suddenly released from her commitments, decided to take a quick vacation to Berlin with friends Paul Mescal and Fred Hechinger (both fresh from the set of ), playwright and actor Jeremy O Harris, and actor Michael Seater. “We're walking around with Mr and the guy from , and the person who got stopped the most was Ayo,” Harris says. “People would be like: ‘Yes, chef! Yes, chef!’ And that's when I knew: it was that moment.” Six months later in Los Angeles, over exorbitantly priced at the preferred canteen of young Hollywood, Sushi Park, Edebiri, star of FX/Hulu's runaway hit series , admits that Berlin “got a
