Union: “I haven’t been on network television on a very long time. In cable and streaming, it’s not a note that I have gotten in a very long time. Back when I was on network TV — yes. If you were a person of colour, if they were trying to create a certain kind of woman, that word had to be used over and over and over and over again. Because the alternative was you were going to be the sassy, asexual, Confucius-Yoda friend. So you might want to lean into the likable because they tend to write more for the likable one. The sassy Yoda friend is the first one who is going to die when the monster comes.”