![]() ![]() ™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. ![]() Also being at home with my friends in Canada for the summer for the first time since 2018. What’s next for me is being excited about the unknown. I don’t have anything really concrete planned. What I’ve learned is that actors feel pressure all the time to have something super exciting (lined up). Honestly, I don’t know, which I think is an OK thing to say. If I could do any voice acting role, “Bojack Horseman.” That’s a great show. I can’t even speak Spanish, but I could be one of the hostages. If you could be on any other show right now, what would it be? This will just be a fun show to look back on. New shows will come up, and better representation will come out. This is just the end of one chapter for audiences. Shows are only getting better, and we’re gonna have more representation that’s even better than Devi. I don’t think I need to say more.ĭo you have any parting words for fans of “Never Have I Ever?”Įven though they might be sad that it’s over, I’m only hopeful that more shows like “Never Have I Ever” are coming soon. I had an easier time relating to a cartoon dog. In general, though, growing up as a kid I related more to cartoons and animation. The first Tamil person I knew on TV was Mindy (Kaling) in “The Mindy Project.” That was probably the first South Asian person I saw on TV. Personality-wise, I always related to Hermione Granger. Who was the first person you saw yourself in on TV? ![]() So don’t worry and don’t sweat the arm hair, the leg hair, the mustache. It would have been a reminder that, “Hey, you’re attractive, kiddo. So in “Never Have I Ever,” it’s awesome to see the guys chase after the girl that looks like me or shares my face. It’s just that we’re not getting to see that in mainstream media. It doesn’t mean, of course, that South Asian women – women of color of all different backgrounds – aren’t just beautiful. But when I saw Hermione walking down the stairs to the Yule Ball with her awesome pink dress, I wanted to have that moment. I don’t think I realize how much that impacted me as a kid. When Harry and Ron ditch the Patil twins (at the Yule Ball), I was so sad. The Patil twins were obviously done so dirty. If they were of color, they were very rarely a South Asian girlie. The female hero was always typically White. What would a show like “Never Have I Ever” have meant for you growing up?įor so long, all the pretty girls (onscreen) were all the White girls. We rarely see a female character do that. Kamala is going through a whole story arc about her not being okay with arranged marriage. Her mom Nalini is processing the loss of the love of her life as a single mom. Just touching on Season 1 topics, Devi is in therapy, Devi’s going through grief. The fact that Nalini is down to get her daughter into therapy is amazing. That’s not even touched at the dinner table, let alone on TV. What made “Never Have I Ever” so radical to you? The bar was really low and let’s be honest, it’s not that high still. Unfortunately, people are so starved for representation. But I always knew that the show would be a hit merely just for the fact that we haven’t seen anything like that. I haven’t seen a show like this that featured a brown girl that touched on the topics that it did – and definitely not on a mainstream platform like Netflix. In the ways that I did know this was rare is in being an audience member. Kulkarni) first days on set, he said, “Oh my god, I’ve never been on a set with this many brown people.” Then I realized this is my normal, but that hasn’t been the normal. On one of Utkarsh’s (Ambudkar, who plays Devi’s teacher Mr. She gave it to me too nice.ĭid you realize how rare that was when you first took on the role? Being able to play a brown girl as my first role is just the cherry on top. That as an actor, in general, is the dream: Being able to play a character that you can sink your teeth into. We get to see her be a fully formed human being. She’s a young woman who is both smart but also bold and loud and goes through so many character arcs, has so many different relationships in her life. ![]()
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