Ayo Edebiri has reached the Finding Out phase of her career

Ayo Edebiri has moved on from the fucking around on the internet phase of her career. We all knew it was coming—as a certified Famous Person, you can’t get away with claiming you were the dialect coach on The Departed, but only for the word “microprocessors” forever—but it’s still a sad day for posters everywhere. Tina Fey’s evergreen advice (partly inspired by Ms. Edebiri herself) strikes again: “Authenticity is dangerous and expensive. I don’t think so, honey!”

The Bear and Bottoms star addressed a couple of her infamous exploits on the World Wide Web in a new interview with Vanity Fair this week, starting, of course, with that “feud” with Jennifer Lopez from earlier this year. In Edebiri’s view, however, it wasn’t really a feud at all—the scales were too imbalanced. “That would be like Mr. Bean and Mick Jagger beefing,” she said, “and I’m obviously Mr. Bean. She’s J.Lo!”

If you don’t remember this whole kerfuffle, a 2020 podcast episode in which Edebiri had called J.Lo’s singing career “one long scam” was dredged up when it was announced that the two would be paired as the host/musical guest on a February episode of SNL. Edebiri apologized for her comments before the show (“[Lopez] was very chill and nice about it,” she told VF) and even poked fun at the whole debacle in a sketch later that night.

“Okay, we get it! It’s wrong to leave mean comments, or post comments just for clout, or run your mouth on a podcast, and you don’t consider the impact because you’re 24 and stupid,” she said. “But I think I speak for everyone when I say from now on, we’re going to be a lot more thoughtful about what we post online.”

But it’s not just snarky podcast comments that the Edebiri-hive is losing as her star continues to grow. Those, we could give or take; losing her presence on Letterboxd is a genuine tragedy. “My personal relationship with Letterboxd after having a very public relationship with Letterboxd is that I’m really kind of chilling,” she said of her extremely popular takes on the cinephile social media app in an additional VF video. “These people were coming after my reviews, and I’m just here to have a good time and be a little bit of a fool, okay?”

“It’s not my fault that I started off as a comedian,” she continued, in an increasingly manic (but still jokey) tone. “I was on Twitter, I was in the gutter, okay?” But while Ayo is vowing to “be a little less addicted to the internet in general,” those who are still very much in the gutter can always revisit some of her greatest hits on Letterboxd here. The new, “dramedy actress” version of Edebiri will return when The Bear season 3 hits Hulu on June 27.