![]() ![]() ![]() Joining the cast is Michael Cimino as the school's new heartthrob, Ethan. Even though Paxton has graduated and is attending Arizona State University, he makes an appearance in Never Have I Ever season 4.Īlso returning is Jaren Lewison as Ben Gross, Devi's chief academic rival and on-again/off-again romantic interest.ĭevi's friends are in the mix, as well: Ramona Young as Eleanor Wong Lee Rodriguez as Fabiola Torres and Megan Suri as Aneesa Qureshi. We should also see Devi's love interests, starting with Darren Barnet as Paxton Hall-Yoshida, Devi's ex-boyfriend. Sendhil Ramamurthy is likely to return in flashbacks as Devi's father, Mohan Vishwakumar. Nalini Vishwakumar, her mother and a dermatologst Richa Moorjani as Kamala Nandiwadal, her cousin and a graduate student and Ranjita Chakravarty as Nirmala Vishwakumar, her paternal grandmother. She will be joined by her family members: Poorna Jagannathan as Dr. And thank God that would never happen again without several people in the room.The cast of Never Have I Ever is led by Maitreyi Ramakrishnan as Devi Vishwakumar, a high school senior. You can't be your most free in a space you don't feel safe. First of all, just for a creative environment, it's horrific. And I think it brought up a lot for us when we had those first experiences, thinking of the near-misses and the overt discomfort in the space, even if you were seemingly safe, it creates an environment that says these are the people in charge and you are a submissive. Just learning that this could be possible was just so eye opening. I just worked with my first intimacy coordinator ever, and I had to have her explain the job to me, and I was confused. But why is a 13-year-old auditioning at the Chateau Marmont in a hotel room alone with a man in his 40s and there's nowhere to sit but on a bed? Now, nothing happened, but the dynamic is there. I say that with awareness of the blessing of the certain people that I did work for. I was incredibly lucky at how much didn't happen. ![]() On being vulnerable to predatory behavior in Hollywood ![]() So thanks, Dad, for playing bad guys in Westerns. And I know people knowing my parents and certainly guys knowing my dad, I think, were careful with me. And I was in, especially starting work so young, very potentially uncomfortable or even dangerous circumstances. On how her father's reputation protected herĪll of us have discussed as women in our workplace environments, we've all had to navigate so much. I didn't love that other people were confused, but luckily I wasn't terribly confused. I remember even at 12, trying to sort of defend and justify that they're not their roles. I felt almost part of it, because I had the good fortune of watching them.Įven in middle school, I remember some kids teasing me because one of them said their dad had said that they couldn't have a playdate with me because my dad killed John Wayne. I would watch them transform so much that it clearly was their job. I think they said the first set they brought me to, I was like three weeks old and they used the dresser drawer of the motel as my crib on a film they were working on. Runtime 30m Total Runtime 4h 50m (10 episodes) Country United States Language English Genres Comedy, Romance, Drama A new love life, a new classmate and new reasons to bicker with mom give Devi plenty more ways to make courageous moves. On growing up seeing her actor parents playing different people But it was such a personal, intimate, beautiful thing to share that kind of knowing and bringing it into this professional space, but also the boundaries of that professional space that it's sort of this unspoken language. Mom describes the whole crew looking at us as if we were nuts. And I looked at her and felt I knew the emotion and the pain she was expressing in the scene, both very personal, both never discussed, but we just know each other so well.Īnd so at that moment, we started laughing hysterically right after this big crying scene. And he said, "Cut!" and mom describes us pulling away and her looking in my eyes and realizing that she knew exactly what had brought up the emotion in me. The camera rolls and David Lynch called "Action!" and it's very emotional and I'm crying in her arms. She remembered me preparing for the scene at one end of the set and her at the other, both doing our work, both having trained separately as professionals, not engaged in that together, and then coming together to do this very emotional scene. My mom talked about the joy she had remembering the first time we worked together on Wild at Heart, and we had to do this very emotional scene. Isabella Rossellini, left, David Lynch, Laura Dern and Diane Ladd laugh during a photocall for Wild at Heart at the Cannes Film Festival in 1990. ![]()
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