Sometimes I’ll listen to good ’50s and ’60s music, just for the vibes. I need constant music I’m not a big fan of silence. They’re very organized by moods and different character arcs, if you will. I take a lot of pride in my Spotify playlists. Gimme the carbs, that’s what I’m here for. The kids size pizza at this hotel? Bam, thicker dough. Hear me out: the adult size pizza is on thin fancy bread, with all these toppings, and I love toppings, but I don’t like the thin dough. I got a kid’s size cheese pizza delivered to my room. What’s the last thing you ordered for dinner? You know when people call celebrities “mother”? I always thought that was weird, but Michelle Yeoh is mother, bro. Character actress Margo Martindale - she’s got vibes. Megan Suri, because she’s a homie too and puts me on a lot of good music. She just gives me all the emotional support. But I’m going to put all my money on the fact that Dolly Parton is an amazing person. I don’t put celebrities on a pedestal because we’re all humans, but I also don’t want to get excited and then meet someone and they’re awful. You’re hopping in an Uber XL and can bring five celebrities with you - who’s coming? Right now I’m playing The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, because I’m getting ready for the new game. They got me into video games and anime and I’m always staying up to date now. Growing up, a lot of my influences came from my older brother and cousins, who are like my sisters. There’s many things I don’t know, which I’m okay with. I guess I’m pretty damn good at being a sad girl, as much as I am a funny girl.Īgreed! Now for the Taste Test questions: Where do you get your best culture recommendations from?Īll my pop-culture updates come from social media, but I also feel very out of touch. Like, that’s very serious acting, and at most I can make a fart joke. If you told me at 17, “Hey, you have to portray losing your dad and going through grief,” I probably would have thought that I couldn’t do it. People can relate to it even if they don’t look like the lead. It’s why, when we call Never Have I Ever a young adult show, it’s such a disservice. The journey of grief in the storyline, especially in season one-just that true finding and discovering yourself is a plot I love so much. What’s that been like for you as an actor? We see Devi’s grief evolve, but it never neatly resolves. The show, and your performance in particular, has done such a great job of capturing the consistency of grief. It’s a new chapter - I genuinely have no idea what I’m going to do after this. It’s sad but also exciting. When I actually graduated high school, I had no idea I was going to do this. So as a fan, I’m glad it’s ending now instead of getting dragged out. As an audience member, I’ve always been team end stories when they need to end I don’t like when TV drags on just for the sake of it. How are you feeling about the final season?Īll good things have to come to an end. “I started fresh out of high school, and then basically reentered high school for the next four years.” It’s a double graduation for Devi and Maitreyi alike, which calls for a little taste-test celebration. “It’s weird, I really did grow up onscreen with Devi,” she tells the Cut. Ramakrishnan, now 21 and every bit as witty as her onscreen counterpart, can relate to the ensuing uncertainty. and a love triangle!) The series comes to an end this summer with a fourth and final season, in which Devi leaves high school and its colorful characters behind for the next chapter of her life, whatever that may look like. The series, which first aired in 2020, foregrounded a layered Indian American girlhood in ways that hadn’t been done before, with Ramakrishnan leaning into Devi’s grief and horniness and teenage impetuousness with verve and wit. She’d never acted professionally when her self-tape was selected out of 15,000 other auditions for the lead role of Devi Vishwakumar, a plucky and ambitious Indian American teenager who lives in Sherman Oaks, California, and is desperate to get laid. A close friend sent it to 17-year old Mississauga native and bona fide Desi lady Maitreyi Ramakrishnan. In 2019, Mindy Kaling put out an open casting call on Twitter for her untitled coming-of-age Netflix series: “ATTENTION DESI LADIES,” the tweet began. Photo-Illustration: The Cut Photos: Getty Images, Everett Collection, Nintendo, Amazon, Portrait: George Pimentel
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