Laughing Tag

Photo credit: Shot By Sed When Vena Excell answered the phone, she was barely out of breath. “I’m coming from set,” she said in the beginning of our interview. That is the norm now for the social media star, otherwise generally known as Pretty Vee, who’s amassed nearly 7 million followers across her platforms along with her hilarious videos. She is a component of a crop of mega influencers birthed post-Vine, where humor dominated their Instagram pages as an alternative of heavily curated photos. Now, nearly a decade after making her first post, Excell is making her entry into Hollywood. In Issa Rae’s scripted HBO Max dramedy Rap Sh!t, Excell plays an ambitious sex employee, and the reception has been overwhelmingly...