Lucia Keskin is a 23-year-old actor and writer who made her name on YouTube. Under the nom de plume Chi With a C, she has garnered nearly half a million subscribers with videos variously embracing what my grandma used to call “sheer nonsense” (for instance: “pretending to be a carrot for one minute”), musical numbers and parodies of entire shows, with Keskin playing all the parts. She is a great impressionist; if Modern Family is ever rebooted, Sofía Vergara could listen to Keskin’s uncanny impersonation and immediately slip back into character.
Keskin has now written, and is starring in, her own sitcom, Things You Should Have Done. She plays Chi, a 20-year-old self-described “stay-at-home daughter”, whose parents have recently been killed in a road accident. All that was recovered from the wreckage? A ready meal, which the police solemnly hand over to her, after breaking the news that she is now an orphan. “Do you think it’s too soon to eat this?” she asks.
