THE DEADBOLT: I love Adir’s accent.

SHAW: Oh my gosh, it’s awesome. He can do any accent. It’s crazy, he’ll throw in an Irish accent, a Southern accent; it’s awesome.

THE DEADBOLT: Do you find the chemistry getting better with each episode?

SHAW: Definitely. I think the longer you’re working with these people the more comfortable you get and the more risks you take around them. The chemistry was really great from the get-go, too, so it was nice to just build on that.

THE DEADBOLT: The show has been getting a lot of great critical reviews, but it still seems a bit "alien" to a lot of viewers. In your opinion, what makes the show so unique?

SHAW: The show is really relatable. It takes pretty much every problem you can have in high school and addresses it and deals with it. The show is completely relatable. Every character has issues that anybody who identifies with them can relate to.

THE DEADBOLT: What’s been your favorite Claire moment so far?

SHAW: Oh my god, one of my favorite scenes is with the mom, Amy Pietz. It’s this episode where Claire finds this... um, personal massager that her mom got, and she confronts her mom about it and she won’t own up to it. It’s funny because Claire, during the whole episode, tries to get her to admit what this is. There’s this one scene where her mom is so uncomfortable and she’s just trying to get it out of her, it’s awesome.

THE DEADBOLT: Do you find that you're more aware of what’s going on in Pakistan, just by default?

SHAW: Adir is, yeah. He pretty much serves to educate all of us on set about that. He gives us a brief overview of what’s going on and I guess by default I’ve absorbed some information of what’s going on over there.

THE DEADBOLT: What type of reactions have you gotten from fans or people in the industry about the show?

SHAW: I think people who really appreciate how dry the humor is. I think that they really understand it and they get what we’re trying to accomplish. The people who get that kind of humor, and like it, have responded very positively to the show.

THE DEADBOLT: What’s the most challenging part of being a young actress in today’s Hollywood?

SHAW: I don’t know, kind of shrugging off everybody’s opinion. Everybody has an opinion of you and what you should be doing and how you should be doing it. You really have to be cement in what you believe and know is right, because that really gets to you. It really gets in your head, what other people say. Basically [you have to] just think for yourself and not for everybody else.

THE DEADBOLT: Is it difficult to stay grounded as a young female actress given all of the media attention on other young celebrities like Britney and Lindsay?

SHAW: I don’t know if I’ve been in this business long enough to experience enough of that. But my view on that right now is - the way I was brought up and my entire family have always made that of the utmost importance, to stay grounded. So I truly think that will stick with me and I think I’ll be able to not believe the hype and not buy into all of the hype. So yeah, I think I’ll be good to go.