We talked to Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, star of mindykaling's new netflix show, neverhaveiever, about how one tweet led to her first acting job.
A year ago, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan had never been in front of a camera. She didn’t have an agent. She had to Google with a “full body shot” meant. 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. Twelve months later and Ramakrishnan is about to be the star of her own Netflix show.
“Figuring out where you fit in your own identity within your culture, I feel like that story hasn’t been told,” Ramakrishnan. “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. But it truly is so important.”
After I sent a total of six self tapes, they asked me to come to L.A. I told my mom, and she was like, ‘Wait. 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. 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.
View this post on Instagram Ain’t nothing better than working with my mom. Get ready for Never Have I Ever, folks!❤️😜 #NeverHaveIEver On the first time she met Mindy Kaling “It was the first trip I took to L.A. I remember I saw her in the waiting room for, like, two seconds. And then when I walked into the audition, she was there. A lot of my friends told me, ‘Don’t make any Office references. Don’t make any Office jokes.’ Because I tend to do that just on the reg.
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