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00:00My name is Natasha Rothwell. I'm a creator, showrunner and I play the character of Mel on How to Die Alone.
00:14How to Die Alone is about a person who is unseen and underrepresented.
00:19I'd let him do anything to me.
00:21We work at the airport. We're invisible to him and everybody else.
00:25There's a difference between loneliness and being alone.
00:29I wanted to make a show where we explored the things that scare me the most.
00:32I was terrified of dying alone.
00:34Can you imagine a world where nobody sees you?
00:37She has trouble believing that she deserves to be loved.
00:40I'm broke. My love life is a joke.
00:42And the punchline is I work at an airport. I'm afraid to fly.
00:46You can't let fear keep you from taking off.
00:48I think audiences will relate to someone who is trying to make their best effort to close the distance between who they are and who they want to be.
00:56I'm just tired of waiting for my life to start.
00:58I feel like a lot of people are sitting on their hopes and dreams.
01:01He found someone else. I mean, look at her.
01:04Look at you! Woman king!
01:06I'm woman king.
01:07No, say it like you mean it.
01:08Woman king!
01:09That's a little bit loud.
01:12Mel has a near-death experience.
01:14And that near-death experience turns her entire life around.
01:18I died today and it did not live up to the hype.
01:21Maybe you should start living then.
01:23I didn't want to write a show where a prince rescues the princess. I wanted to see the princess do it herself.
01:27I am tired of listening to everyone else but myself.
01:31Melissa moves from spectator to participant in her life.
01:36She learns to trust herself and trust in the people who love her.
01:40Congratulations. Proud of you. We're all rooting for you.
01:43I met someone.
01:44Who?
01:45Me.
01:48We wanted to do something magical and something that was very visceral.
01:52Every episode we play with magic realism where I get to do things that we don't get to do in real life.
01:57We touch on serious subjects and we get to have a laugh.
02:01A show like How to Die Alone will give audiences someone to root for.
02:05My hope is that audiences can see that no one's really so far gone that they can't rescue themselves.
02:13I want people to start waking up and living fully.
02:15I'm a bossess!
02:19How to Die Alone.
02:21Series premieres September 13th on Hulu.
02:23And for bundle subscribers on Disney+.