Yara Shahidi sat down with Justine Magazine to talk about her many projects, who in the industry she’s most like to work with and more. Check out the highlights below:

On acting alongside brother Sayeed on television show” First Family”:

I loved having him with me. We actually played Samuel L. Jackson’s kids in Unthinkable, so I like having him on set with me. He’s hilarious, so I always have a great time with him. I don’t get nervous, but it’s really nice having him there.

On the difference between working on the films “Butter” and “Alex Cross”:

Butter was really funny. It was a more grown-up movie, so going from being in Imagine That to a movie like Butter was really cool. I had a really fun character [in Butter].

On who she most wants to work with:

Queen Latifah because I’ve seen a lot of her movies and she’s really funny. I want to work with Saoirse Ronan from The Lovely Bones as well.

On her favorite book:

I have quite a few.  I just read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith and Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson.  Right now I am reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

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