Issa Rae talks about Lawrence's return on "Insecure" and Rihanna's movie rumors (Exclusive)

To be clear, Issa Rae never said that Lawrence would not come back Unsafe.

The episode on Sunday saw the return of Issa's ex-boyfriend, who made a lot of panic after assuming that Jay Ellis's character was not in the third season.

"I'm so glad we have people," Rae told Nischelle Turner, ET, at the 4th Annual Rihanna Diamond Ball in New York on Thursday. "I was sure the secret was going to be unveiled." We were very concerned that people would know [he was in season three]. And then people were surprised, and that's the best feeling there is. "

Rae, however, specified that she never said Lawrence was no longer part of the series.

"That's not the benefit." Every time I did an interview, people said to themselves, "I heard Lawrence would not come back. "I was as if it were served to us, let's use it," she said. "But I never said, myself, that I had never heard that from my mouth, Lawrence will not come back this season. "Any point of view you look at, [they] I asked the question and I was like, if that is what they think [I’ll let them go with it]. It was like a blessing. People just took the news and ran with it. And we loved it. "

Meanwhile, Rae participated in Rihanna's annual gala as host of the evening.

"First of all, when Rihanna asks you to do something, you do it, so rumors or not, I'm here," she said, referring to speculation that she is working on a RiRi movie. . Last year, a photo of Rihanna and Lupita Nyong's, reunited at Paris Fashion Week in 2014, went viral when a Tumblr fan wrote that they looked like " they are in a burglary film ". Fans quickly began calling for the film to be made, with stories circulating that Netflix had a film in progress with Ava DuVernay performing and Rae writing the screenplay.

"I'm ready to continue writing, I would like to write for her," said Rae. "I'm ready to work and I'm about to take my little writing holidays after this week.I'm looking forward to it! After the Emmy, I'll almost disappear."

"I'm going to Europe, maybe to South America," she added. "I'm from South Africa, and then I just came from [want to] write because I did not have the chance to sit down and work on new projects, to work on projects that I have. So, I'm just excited to be able to create new things. "

So, if a collaboration with Rihanna is part of "projects that she needs" or "new stuff", she plans to create, it looks like we'll have to wait and see.

AND previously discussed with Rihanna and Nyong'o about the project. The singer of "Umbrella" played the card when it was asked in May, saying, "Well, you never know, I mean, we just have to wait and see."

In July, Nyong'o told ET: "You know, what's really cool is that people have talked about the kind of film they want to see and that's a great example."

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