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- Ayo Edebiri would not speak to herself were she to time travel.
- Edebiri explained that it's because of time travel paradoxes.
- She specifically referred to the ontological paradox referenced in Christopher Nolan's "Tenet."
Award-winning actor Ayo Edebiri has revealed that she knows a thing or two about time travel.
The SAG award winner and writer chatted with Access Hollywood about what she would do if given the opportunity to traverse space and time.
"What would you tell your younger self?" Access Hollywood asked the star, who was draped in a Luar checkered gown on the red carpet. "Did you think you would be here?"
"Imagine I said yes?" "The Bear" actor replied.
Edebiri then got down to the brass tacks of time travel, explaining that she was not hopping on a souped-up, time-traveling DeLorean anytime soon and would tell her younger self absolutely nothing.
"I would say nothing to her, obviously, just because of the rules of time travel," Edebiri explained. "I've never been visited by myself in the future. And so I think if that happened to me, I would not make the decision."
Edebiri referred to a well-known paradox of time travel used in the Christopher Nolan movie "Tenet," which explains that alterations to the past via time travel are possible but that those changes were predestined. This is also known as the ontological, or bootstrap, paradox.
There are several other theories about meeting your past self that could have a whole load of unintended consequences. Some say a meeting cannot happen between you and your past self because it doesn't make sense: If you meet up with your past self and change the course of your future, then the older version of you ceases to exist.
Other theories include that changing the past could create an alternate universe — think "Avengers: Endgame."
And, of course, there is the disputed butterfly effect — a theory that changing the past could endanger or greatly alter the future.
Even though Edebiri will not be visiting her past self, it doesn't mean the rest of us can't get a chance to meet the starlet before fame (you know, if time travel does turn out to be real).
Personally, I would like to visit the past Edebiri of 2012, who was posting sick Coldplay covers on YouTube.
Reps for Edebiri did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.