![]() First of all, in my head, I was thinking, “How did you even get to that point?” Secondly, I was like, “I’m gonna explain to you how to do it.” So that’s where the TikTok came from. With “Anirudh,” growing up, they’d add all sorts of letters. There’s one or two ways they can pronounce your name and, most of the time, they get it right. Even within the Indian community, there’s a level … if you go by “Raj” - and I’m not trying to diminutize or anything - it’s fairly easy to get in. So I assume that scene particularly resonated with you.ĭefinitely. You made a TikTok tutorial on how to pronounce your first name. There was no level of like, “I deserve this” or “I’m born to do this.”ĭes and Devi also discuss Anglicizing Indian names. Let’s not beat around the bush about it.” But he said he still does the auditions … he was very grounded and very grateful to be there. He was like, “I definitely have benefited from this. Did you get a chance to talk about his experiences working in the industry versus yours? His mom, Reese Witherspoon, is a good friend of Kaling’s. This season, Deacon Phillippe plays one of your character’s friends. I think they were really trying to hit on that angle and he’s not perfect. There’s a traditional trope of Indian boys and their moms. She thinks he’s this perfect, angel child. This is also different from the way that Des presents himself to his mom (played by “To All the Boys …” actress Sarayu Blue). It’s OK to be like “this is how I’m feeling” and verbalize it. It gets over things like toxic masculinity where I always have to puff up my chest and have a stiff upper lip. That doesn’t mean that they’re just this cocky know-it-all. … The whole idea, at least for me, was we’re trying to show that you can be a more intellectual person - a nerdy guy, so to speak - but still be sexy at the same time. Most characters are going to be, at some level, messy. We’re always trying to break - especially in recent years - that perfection myth. And Poorna Jagannathan is fighting backĪfter defying stereotype in small, potent roles in “The Night Of,” “Ramy” and more, the actor finds her biggest platform yet in Netflix’s “Never Have I Ever.”Īs the series goes on, we see that Des isn’t always confident among his friends and that he’s not always this take-charge kind of guy. Television Hollywood has long failed South Asian women. However, she says, “we definitely thought about it” and “there were several people in our writers room who were Team Des.”) (Editor’s note: Fisher confirmed that Des isn’t coming back for the show’s fourth, and final, season because the story’s going in another direction. I want to say Devi should give Des another chance. When they meet, Des tells Devi she’s probably “one of those Indian girls who only likes white guys and thinks all Indian dudes are just computer geeks.” Given that, how do you feel about how the season ended? I feel like it’s going to be inevitable that there’s always going to be an “othering” process depending on what the project is especially in a high school-type project where the jokes are based on different cliques.īut, in my experience, casting is like that. And from what I saw, that was definitely trying to separate that whole aspect about what cool is and what cool isn’t. But there’s that movie that came out this year, “Senior Year.” I only saw a little bit of it. There’s a definite demarcation of where that character’s boundaries begin and end. ![]() ![]() One of the characters once said that Asian kids can either be a “cool Asian or a school Asian.” Do you think that’s true? Especially in regards to casting? There was an MTV scripted show called “Awkward.” that was also set in high school. It’s definitely a f- you to all the jocks and the popular kids back in high school. Is this a cathartic moment then because you get to relive your high school years? ![]()
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