So that’s a story a lot of people can relate to.” So, it’s confusing when you’re trying to figure out who sometimes you feel like you’re an outsider, but you’re on the inside. They came to Canada in their 20s, and I was born in Canada and raised my whole life in Mississauga. “That was the case for me personally,” she continues. So, it makes you sort of feel in the middle,” Ramakrishnan said. “A lot of girls, boys of color are actually raised in the western world … when their family’s from somewhere else. “She truly is like the anti-hero of ‘Never Have I Ever.’ You’re rooting for her, but you’re also like, ‘Man, get it together.”Īnd equally important for Ramakrishnan to landing her first starring role is the chance to take a major step forward in small-screen representation by presenting a teenage South Asian girl in a lead role, especially since she identifies Kaling as one of the only South Asian women she saw on screen growing up. “Devi’s just a spunky, sassy and witty South Asian girl who’s trying to figure out where she belongs in her high school, but also balancing her family dynamic and then her friends as well, trying to be there for everyone even though she might not go about it in the best way,” Ramakrishnan said. The newcomer plays Devi Vishwakumar, a young Indian American girl growing up in Southern California and navigating life as a nerdy high school sophomore alongside her best friends Eleanor (played by Ramona Young) and Fabiola (Lee Rodriguez). Now just over a year later, Ramakrishnan makes her professional acting debut on the series, which is now streaming on Netflix. It’s crazy to think like so many people around the world wanted to be a part of this. “We literally went to our library community center, booked a room,” she continued, laughing.
DEVI MAITREYI RAMAKRISHNAN HOW TO
It took the pair an hour to figure out how to work the camera, Ramakrishnan remembers.
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