![]() ![]() All of that came out of my mouth was, ‘That’s crazy.’ My whole family was around me. What about the code…?’ My brain kind of froze. Cool, cool, cool.’ And then they’re like, ‘We just wanted to congratulate you on the role of Devi.’ And I was like, ‘Wait. Is this Maitreyi?’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah it is.’ And they’re like, ‘Hi, it’s Mindy and Lang.’ And I’m like, ‘Oh. Listen to the phone.’ And I’m there with pen and paper, ready to write it down because it’s supposed to help my audition, and then Mindy and Lang answer the phone and they’re like, ‘Hi. She gives me her phone, and she’s like, ‘OK. She wanted to prank me, so she told my family I and we had to be home at 9 o’clock sharp because somebody is going to call us and give us this code. ![]() I didn’t know how close I was to getting until the very last audition when I found out I was one of the last people that they were considering.” On the moment she learned she got the part What just happened? What did you do?’ After I showed my mom that it was legit and it wasn’t a scam, we figured that we should get an agent to help us navigate the rest of the journey. A week later was when they asked me to send in some more.Īfter I sent a total of six self-tapes, they asked me to come to L.A. We went to our library, we filmed our video and we sent it in. ![]() Here I am with none…I don’t have experience working a job at all. Obviously there will be people who are professionals or at least with some experience. Realistically, neither of us thought anything would come of it. I said yes to my best friend because honestly, I just wanted to hang out with her. “My best friend sent me Mindy’s original tweet to the whole world, asking people to audition for the show. But it truly is so important.”Īhead, StyleCaster talked to Ramakrishnan about how one tweet led to her first acting job ever, The Office moment that won over Kaling’s heart in her audition and whether viewers can expect a second season of Never Have I Ever. “It’s also really important to have representation, as much as we spit that word out a lot, I feel like we’re constantly saying the word, ‘Representation.’ Suddenly, it starts to become less meaningful. “Figuring out where you fit in your own identity within your culture, I feel like that story hasn’t been told,” Ramakrishnan says. The show, which explores Devi’s relationships with her friends, her mom and her Indian-American identity, is more than that. But those who just expect Never Have I Ever to be about Devi’s romantic ventures may be disappointed. MINDY KALING NEVER HAVE I EVER SERIESThe series follows Devi Vishwakumar, a 15-year-old Indian-American girl from Sherman Oaks, California, who’s as uncool as one can expect from a teen rom-com-especially to her crush, Paxton Hall-Yoshida, a.k.a. On April 27, Ramakrishnan will make her on-screen debut as Devi, the lead of Mindy Kaling’s new coming-of-age comedy, Never Have I Ever, on Netflix. Twelve months later, and Ramakrishnan is about to be the star of her own Netflix show. And she had never even acted before, aside from a high school production of Footloose, which her teacher asked her to audition for because the show needed more students. She had to Google what a “full body shot” meant. A year ago, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan had never been in front of a camera. ![]()
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