Should we expect to see more of that with her in Season 3?

There are no scripts available. I don’t even know if they’ve started writing them. We were going to start shooting next year, but Donald’s schedule is really full, so we don’t know really when things are happening. But just based off of initial conversations, yes, I think we’re definitely going to continue on that path.

You’ve spoken publicly about your struggles with anxiety. Now that you have the Emmy nomination, how are you managing those feelings? Does some of the pressure come from being a black performer in a fickle industry?

It’s interesting you bring that up. It almost makes me feel emotional.

I’m sorry.

No, no. It’s O.K. It’s just a big part of my life. I think this is actually a little bit weird — it’s where my not resounding, complete excitement for receiving an Emmy nomination is coming from; a feeling of complete impostor syndrome, and feeling like I don’t deserve it. I don’t know … I hesitate saying that publicly, because I don’t want to come off like I don’t appreciate it.

Yeah.

Sorry, I’m just — it’s something really hard to deal with, being in an industry where your validation is only from the outside, especially if your confidence isn’t high in your work. I just really want to do good work. That’s just important to me, and when something is really being publicly lauded, I just really want to feel like I did my best work, and I’m never sure if I do my best work. That’s something I’ve always struggled with within my work and in this industry.

I’ve gotten much better at feeling like I have found my place, and like I deserve to be in a place. I’ve gotten much, much better at being able to deal with feeling very insecure or very anxious, or having panic attacks on set. But I think initially for “Atlanta,” it was my biggest opportunity. It was my first time showing my face to the world. So, I was very incredibly terrified of that.

In the context of being a woman of color: Honestly, I don’t worry as much about feeling like things in five years aren’t going to come. I worry more that I’m being cast just because they need to fill a brown quota, and because they feel obliged to do that, and not because they actually want me. I feel like, does that mean my work isn’t as good? Would I have been cast if there wasn’t public pressure now to make sure that one brown face is among the sea of white? So, that’s where I believe that comes from, this feeling like I’m not actually maybe wanted, and that they’re just feeling pressure to want me.