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She can also be seen starring alongside Zoe Saldaña in the new Netflix limited series “From Scratch,” based on Tembi Locke’s memoir about an American student who falls in love with an Italian chef.

“I didn’t witness those things firsthand, but we used them to create scenes onscreen,” Tembi said.

When Tembi and Attica Locke were children growing up in Houston, they would sit on their grandmother’s orange-and-red shag carpet and make up games to play.

In 1990, when Tembi was 20, she moved to Florence to spend a year studying art, part of an exchange program from Wesleyan University.

In the series, Tembi is Amy, played by Zoe Saldaña, and Saro is Lino, played by Eugenio Mastrandrea.