Why Janina Gavankar calls her TheWayBack co-star Ben Affleck her 'artist ally for life'
“He didn’t know how to ask me this, but he was like, ‘Where did you…? Where did you…?’ And I finished his sentence. I was like, ‘Where did I come from?’” Gavankar told ‘Ben, I’ve been [acting] for 15 years. I’ve been marginalized for 15 years. There was no way I would get to act across from you in any of these years until now.’”
“One, I have a body of work that earned me the right to even audition. And two, finally, somebody like me gets to audition for a movie like that,” says Gavankar of her co-starring role in “.” She adds with a laugh, “But also, realistically, they didn’t have money, and I was very cheap.” Gavankar’s latest projects include playing the lead in the NBC pilot “Echo,” as well as the short horror film “Stucco,” the latter of which she starred in, in addition to co-directing, co-producing and co-writing with her creative partner Russo Schelling.
“I’m in such a strange industry that if you don’t have that engine, you’re just not gonna make it. Also, I’ve been a brown girl my whole life. When I first moved to L.A., there were no opportunities. There was really nothing,” she says.
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