The stars of “Never Have I Ever” talk about what it meant for South Asian representation, what it was like to tell such a culturally specific story and why it resonated.
On the first day that Richa Moorjani walked onto the set of “Never Have I Ever,” she realized she was a part of something special. For one, she wasn’t the only South Asian person there. For another, she and her fellow South Asian castmates Maitreyi Ramakrishnan and Poorna Jagannathan were the leads of the show. The entire Netflix series was centered around characters who shared their cultural backgrounds, and the team behind it was taking cues from them.
“But they actually go in and they have these beautiful moments. She has a miscarriage, which is never depicted such a common experience.” “I knew I was really in for the ride of a lifetime,” she said of taking the role. It got specific about the characters’ culture Part of what made “Never Have I Ever” so refreshing was the specificity with which it depicted the Vishwakumar family and their distinct experiences as Tamil, Hindu Indians living in Sherman Oaks, California.
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