Amandla Stenberg: I remember the first time we met. I was 11 and Rowan was about 9. We were at an event for child actors, and a designer had collaborated with both of us to make our dream dresses — I wore a lace piece with studs, and Rowan had on a little blue-and-pink pirate dress — so we ended up taking a picture together.
I met a lot of other young performers at events, and there were weird semblances of friendships, but they were always supposed to be these public things.
Rowan and I have found something much more substantial beyond that. There was an interesting cultural moment happening around 2014 or so, when we were still child actors.