Throughout the series, Devi is in therapy to manage her grief after the death of her father. 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. Poorna Jagannathan: From 'Never Have I Ever' mom to mafia maven
(Photo by Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency/NurPhoto)NO USE FRANCE Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency/NurPhoto/Reuters 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.Īmerican producer and actress of Indian descent Poorna Jagannathan arrives at Gold House's 2nd Annual Gold Gala 2023 held at The Music Center on in Los Angeles, California, United States. 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. Devi was refreshing not just because she was a South Asian American protagonist, but because she defied stereotypes of brown girls. In a world where we barely get token representation, let alone authentic representation, (I got to play) a character that has the ability to have so many emotions and be so multifaceted. I lucked out with a very amazing role that some people could just dream of. Courtesy of NetflixĪnd then the role of Devi itself. In "Never Have I Ever," Devi is a high-achieving student who sometimes struggles to regulate her emotions. I got to grow with them through these four seasons. I also lucked out with my cast members and my crew members. She has been there for me through thick and thin, and I love her to death – of course as someone who employs me, but also as someone who is there for me. That’s one thing I don’t think I’ll ever comprehend: This was my first opportunity? This was my first job? I couldn’t ask for a better boss than Mindy Kaling. Now that “Never Have I Ever” has come to an end, how does it feel for this to have been your first major acting role? The conversation has been edited for length and clarity. “It’s the end of an era,” she said.ĬNN spoke to Ramakrishnan ahead of the Season 4 premiere about how it feels to be done with “Never Have I Ever,” what it was like to have Mindy Kaling as a first boss and what a show like this would have meant for her growing up. With the fourth and final season of “Never Have I Ever” now streaming, her turn as Devi is behind her. She voiced the character Priya Mangal in Pixar’s “ Turning Red,” and is set to play Lizzie Bennet in the upcoming rom-com “ The Netherfield Girls,” a contemporary take on “Pride and Prejudice.” Since then, Ramakrishnan, 21, has become a breakout star for her performance as the show’s smart and brazen protagonist. Ramakrishnan got a callback and then another one, ultimately beating out more than 15,000 people for the role of Devi Vishwakumar in the now-hit Netflix show “Never Have I Ever.”
NEVER HAVE I EVER CAST MR KULKARNI SERIES
Maitreyi Ramakrishnan was a high school student who had never acted professionally when in 2019, she responded to an open casting call from Mindy Kaling for a TV series about an Indian American teenager.
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