The former Arrested Development actor on co-starring in buddy movie Animals and how her parents running a strip club affected her adolescenceA two-hour drive from Los Angeles, in the Coachella Valley desert, lies the resort city of Palm Springs: upmarket hotels, golf courses, palm trees as far as the eye can see, mountain ranges sprawling majestically in the distance.
It was “a slow, suburban kind of town… a very chill place to grow up,” says Alia Shawkat.
“By the time we were in high school, we would drive around in cars and park them and smoke weed, look at the mountains and be like: ‘One day we’re going to get out of here.’”Shawkat did get out of there: in 2003, aged 14, she joined the cast of sitcom Arrested Development, which ran for three seasons to critical acclaim but poor ratings, only to become a cult show after it
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