To Mark Her Recent 30th Birthday, Ayo Edebiri Answers 30 of Our Most Pressing Questions

Vogue

Director: Posy DixonDirector Of Photography: Malgorzata RabczukEditor: Katie WolfordProducer, C41: Pietro MariProducer: Rashida JosiahCreative Production Coordinators: Sofia Setti, Anisa KennarAssistant Camera: Nicolas De LuigiGaffer: Hanoi De La PazAudio: Kevin GranahanProduction Assistant: Marco Dal BorgoStylist: Danielle GoldbergHairstylist: Jacob Aaron DillonMakeup Artist: Ernesto CasillasProduction Coordinator: Tanía JonesProduction Manager: Kristen HelmickLine Producer: Natasha Soto-AlborsAssistant Editor: Fynn Lithgow Art &amp; Graphics Lead: Léa KichlerPost Production Coordinator: Holly FrewSupervising Editor: Kameron KeyPost Production Supervisor: Alexa DeutschEnterainment Director: Sergio KletnoyExecutive Producer: Rahel Gebreyes, Barbara GuieuSenior Director, Digital Video: Romy van den BroekeHead of Video, Italy: Iacopo CaravaggiSenior Director, Programming: Linda GittlesonVP, Video Programming Thespena GuatieriFilmed on Location: Hotel Cipriani, A Belmond Hotel, Venice

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00:00oh hey book happy birthday io to mark your big 3-0 we've hidden 30 questions around this hotel

00:19and find them all um i don't know let's see do you wanna come in

00:28all right well cake is nice thank you i questions yeah no yeah i'm sure should have figured what

00:35excites you most about turning 30. being alive another year is pretty sick um did you ever

00:41participate in a school talent show no i was a very caliber child three movies you have to watch

00:47before turning 30. 13 going on 30. happy go lucky and um the watermelon woman yeah quote your favorite

00:59movie line the only two that are coming to mind right now are um turn the wig around and um you

01:06wouldn't know baked beans from boston the first cd you owned probably like gospel like fred hammond

01:12or hezekiah walker essential yeah um if you had to title your autobiography what would you title it

01:19hopefully that never has to happen all right we've got a present in the drawer for you so i guess

01:23i'm gonna go there but i that feels really disrespectful to this cake which honestly looks

01:30really expensive so okay as i should created as i should put on the line okay scavenger hunt time nagle

01:47what's the biggest skincare lesson you've learned so far and the one hack everyone should know um

01:54i feel like i've just learned to leave my skin alone i just anytime i try to pick or use a pimple patch

02:02or do some sort of peel it ends in personal disaster what makes someone a good writer practice true okay

02:09we've heard you're a fan of midsummer murders if you were the victim of an episode what would the plot

02:13be how much time do you have okay we have to get detective inspector barnaby the og played by john

02:19nettle's back first of all um and then i think it's like you know classic like village fet um

02:26multiple affairs um and like an old country house i don't know but i would be honored to be the victim

02:34is what i would say ultimately okay one thing you wish everyone knew the plot of that midsummer murders

02:40episode that i've clearly i'm having a hard time cracking um what item from your childhood bedroom

02:46do you still own i have some vhs's i've stolen from my childhood bedroom um shout out the movie mighty

02:55joe young okay how did your parents react when you told them you wanted to be a comedian ultimately

03:00wished me luck and told me that they would not be able to financially support me

03:08time for a lie down after all that work sure

03:16what's the one smell that always takes you back to a good memory honestly wow i was gonna say my

03:21mother's mac and cheese what's more authentic the north end or venice okay well if yeah if you're in

03:27boston no i'm not really going to the north end um so i'm gonna abstain from this question for

03:32geopolitical reasons something that used to stress you out but that you couldn't care less about now

03:38if you could relive one year of your life now which would you choose whoa deep

03:52when i was in fifth grade my mom won an ipod nano and a raffle at work and then she gave it to me

03:58for christmas and low-key just to experience that high of having like a green ipod nano

04:03you know yeah probably like probably might do that okay you open your own restaurant what's the

04:09signature dish like creme brulee i just i just think i just really started craving that now so

04:15that's why i said that and the one show you watch over and over again monk or psych

04:24or midsummer murders well we think it's time you got some fresh air true here i go

04:34this away

04:41well you know fresh air time in the beautiful italian gardens roses guys mowing lawns

04:52okay and also my questions what song always makes you cry right now probably crash the car by nowhere

05:01um if gromit could talk what's the first conversation you would have with him and what

05:05does he sound like i think he sounds like either louise guzman or bob balaban and um i think he would

05:12probably just ask me for human food um and tell me to stop leaving my house what is the best time to leave

05:18a party depends on the party okay top three songs of your personal soundtrack so far honestly don't know but i

05:26dj'd a set for nts so he can listen to that um rank these donatello the painter donatello the turtle and

05:34donatella the designer um honestly all three even legends to me okay well oh i don't have any more questions

05:42okay let's see more questions we know we know what's a habit you have now that would have made

06:04younger you cringe i i don't i don't know because i think younger me would just more be like shocked

06:11at the general circumstances of my life but something that i would say might make younger

06:15me proud would be that i've started like reading again i've like i've like stopped using my phone

06:22and i've started reading again and my friends have started doing this we've been swapping books with

06:27each other and it is like the most childish thing but it's like it's the best it feels really good

06:33um like you have a book and your friend has a book and then you're like wow it's like we're hugging or

06:38something but with our minds okay what's your go-to formula for building a great outfit i would say just

06:44truly wear whatever you want um some days i feel like dressing like a 12 year old boy in a fubu ad

06:52from 2002 and some days i feel like dressing like a 14 year old boy in a fubu ad from 2002.

07:01look in the camera and blink twice if you've ever lied to get out of plans with friends

07:08i'm honest i'll tell you the truth if i need to go to bed you're just not going to see me as a native

07:13bostonian give your best paki count i mean it doesn't get any better than that for me so where can

07:22you find the best jollof rice in america if i don't stay in my grandmother's house there will

07:27be problems so name three things in your closet you think everyone should own a version of oh

07:36like like pants and a shirt and a jacket i don't know have you seen the time haven't you got somewhere

07:43to go okay no i've been talking to you okay i gotta i gotta go see it

07:54okay vogue thank you so much for my amazing and um slightly convoluted present but now i'm off

08:00not a birthday party to attend to so

08:02so

08:08of course yes

08:11congrats io you've nearly made it to 30. one last question can you can you drive this taxi

08:18oh all right cool

08:22see you later i don't i don't know what i'm doing

08:25yeah so um how long how long you've been driving uh boats nice cool

08:55you

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