00:00Why are these people saying that she trolled us?
00:02You swapped me to Team Paxton.
00:04I'm just switching up because I feel like people
00:06don't really believe that I am Team Devi.
00:09Robby P was the info.
00:11She said Twilight Core.
00:12Yes.
00:13What's up, Mercedes?
00:14Guess who we're with?
00:16Hello, it is I.
00:18My turn.
00:19So many actors, especially Canadian actors,
00:21they move to LA or Hollywood or New York
00:23the minute that their career really takes off
00:25and their career has definitely taken off.
00:26But you're still in Saga.
00:28Why did you stay in Ontario
00:30and what's that important to you?
00:31I mean, I get the move.
00:33It makes sense.
00:34I understand, you know, it's sometimes easier
00:36to be where chaos is.
00:39But for me, family and my friends, they're all here.
00:44That's what grounds me, that's what keeps me sane.
00:47In the end, we're all gonna die.
00:50So we might as well be around people we love
00:52doing things that we love.
00:54Maybe I'll get out of Saga and I'll go to Toronto.
00:56We love it.
00:57I have to ask, is it true that you're still
00:58going to York University?
00:59I can hold a fork, so I go to York.
01:02It is true.
01:03Human Rights and Equity Studies.
01:05Yeah, that is the degree.
01:07And do you think that you'll move away from acting
01:08and maybe into advocacy in your future?
01:10No, like hear me out, I was like, no.
01:14Advocacy, no.
01:17I think that's just something I will inherently always do,
01:20like as just a human being, especially as a human being
01:23that is also a brown woman, right,
01:25in a career that has my face be a part of the brand.
01:30So advocacy is something that I'll always care about
01:31and I would hope other people care about, you know?
01:35But acting is what I love to do.
01:36That is my career.
01:38Having the privilege to go to post-secondary,
01:40being able to afford post-secondary,
01:42because it is a very privileged time for people.
01:46So because I can, that is why I am doing it.
01:49I do just like to learn, so yeah.
01:51I think that's incredible, and you are such an advocate
01:53and for representation on screen.
01:55I want to ask, you know, some fans on Twitter
01:57have called out, you know, Mindy Kaling
01:58for her brown characters always ending up
02:00with white male leads.
02:01And I want to talk to you about that,
02:03about how South Asian women in Hollywood
02:04are so harshly critiqued on these things.
02:06I mean, women of color, for sure,
02:09are always harshly critiqued for anything.
02:13There will always be a reason to critique.
02:15And for Mindy, she's writing from what she knows.
02:19These are her stories.
02:20People can have an issue with that, and that's fine.
02:23Everyone's entitled to their opinion,
02:25but you can't take away from someone's lived experience
02:29or the story that they want to tell.
02:31That is Mindy's choice.
02:33If she wrote just to appease other people,
02:35I think that A, it wouldn't be fulfilling for her,
02:38and that's just kind of sad.
02:40You're just writing for the sake of others
02:42and not for yourself as a creative.
02:44But B, it probably wouldn't be as authentic,
02:47because it wouldn't come from her.
02:49Instead of first and foremost getting mad at Mindy,
02:52who really works hard and does truly have my respect,
02:55why don't we get mad at the people
02:56who make it so hard for women who look like Mindy and I
03:00to be at Mindy's level?
03:01That's the problem.
03:02If we had more people who look like Mindy at her level,
03:05then I'm sure we would have so many stories.
03:07Because Mindy can have her types.
03:09I mean, I love brown men.
03:11Let's just put it out there, okay?
03:12We've talked about this before.
03:13Yes, we have, we have.
03:14I'm all about a South Asian man.
03:16Des let me down, okay?
03:18I was rooting.
03:19I was also rooting.
03:20I was rooting for him.
03:21But regardless, I digress.
03:23If we had more people at Mindy's level,
03:26then I think people would be a little bit more easy on her.
03:29But alas, that's not the case.
03:31I get it, as in people,
03:33not every single South Asian girl can relate to me,
03:35and that's fine.
03:37I don't expect every single one to.
03:39I think that that would be just unrealistic.
03:41No.
03:42I can only do what I can, right?
03:43And hope that other people come along the way,
03:46and you know, people get the option to pick and choose
03:49who they feel represented by.
03:51In short, don't get mad at the women of color.
03:54Let's look a little deeper
03:55at the people who are creating barriers.
03:58So we had an interview a couple weeks ago.
04:01I think you told me a little.
04:02So we gotta get into it.
04:04I asked you, were you Team Ben or Team Paxton?
04:06What did I tell you?
04:07You told me Team Paxton.
04:08We told somebody else Team Ben.
04:10Okay, this is the first time
04:13I'm getting confronted about this.
04:14Yeah, this is a confrontation.
04:15Do you feel betrayed?
04:17I do, because I'm such a big fan of you,
04:20and when you put that tweet out
04:21that said, interviewers, please ask me this,
04:23I sent it, my producer Josh and bosses behind.
04:25I was like, I'm so excited to ask her this.
04:30Yeah, I lied.
04:32To everyone, not just you.
04:34I just kept switching,
04:35and I would make a passionate argument for each side.
04:38I was convinced.
04:39You swapped me to Team Paxton.
04:41I was like, 100%.
04:42These arguments are all so valid.
04:44I'm just switching up,
04:46because I feel like people don't really believe
04:47that I am Team Devi.
04:50I mean, Devi is the center of the show.
04:52I'm all about her and her journey as just an individual.
04:57In interviews, ever since the beginning,
04:59I've always talked about her self-love journey.
05:01I think both Ben and Paxton are great characters,
05:04but I just think, Devi, you can do better
05:07than the high school sweetheart.
05:08Girl, come on.
05:10Like, you know?
05:12But I did have fun seeing fans react.
05:16Chaos ensued.
05:18I know, I was looking at the comments
05:19on the video that we did together at nursery,
05:20and I was like, why are these people saying
05:22that she trolled us?
05:24I trolled everyone, and I would do it again.
05:27Honestly, I like that.
05:28When people say like, oh, she's so much so like Devi.
05:31If I've ever done anything in my career thus far
05:33that is very Devi-esque, it was that.
05:36I love it.
05:37It's also kind of being Robert Pattinson.
05:37I don't know if you know,
05:38he always flies in interviews.
05:40You get me.
05:41That was the info.
05:43Robby P was the info.
05:45She said Twilight Core.
05:47Yes, no, next gig that I get, next press tour,
05:50I'm gonna make some lie about the fact
05:52that I don't shower, like Robby P.
05:54He lied about the fact that he doesn't shower.
05:57Obviously he does.
05:58He's a face for a whole perfume.
06:01He probably smells really good.
06:02I mean, I'd take a whiff.
06:04I'd take a whiff.
06:05I'd take a whiff of Robby P.
06:06Well, you basically just graduated,
06:08Never Have I Ever.
06:09We've had this amazing season's run.
06:11I love the finale.
06:13Now, looking towards the future,
06:14I know you've talked about wanting to do
06:16a live action Tangled Rapunzel.
06:19We've heard all about it,
06:20but who would you fan cast as your Flynn Rider?
06:22It has to be a fan of like, you know, Tangled.
06:25You can't just like be a hot guy.
06:28Flynn is not just a hot guy.
06:30Okay, good old Eugene.
06:31No, he is someone who like knows he's attractive,
06:34but deep down has a lot of insecurities.
06:37You know?
06:37No, he's got layers.
06:38He's got layers.
06:39The smirk.
06:40The smolder.
06:41The smolder.
06:42The smolder.
06:43So I don't, I generally don't have an answer for that.
06:46I mean, I gotta get my foot in the door first.
06:48You're like, I gotta get in first.
06:50But it has to be someone who's a fan
06:52and it has to be, yeah,
06:54it has to be a good personality matched in.
06:57Yeah.
06:58Absolutely.
06:59And you know, your fans are so passionate.
07:01You are, you're an icon.
07:02You're so well loved.
07:04I'm a little icon, but thank you.
07:06Absolutely.
07:07How does it feel to have your fans support you so much
07:10on your journey and wanting to be Rapunzel?
07:11I straight up cried.
07:14I cried in Brazil while I was backstage
07:18in the middle of like the Tudum Festival.
07:20Cause I saw on Twitter that someone made a sign
07:23that said, you can be my Rapunzel.
07:25And I saw like another fan in front of them,
07:27like holding up the flashlight
07:30to like illuminate the sign for them.
07:32And then like all the fans have been saying like,
07:34you can be my Rapunzel,
07:35like the people's Rapunzel and all that.
07:37And like that, regardless of, you know, anything,
07:40like that is so sweet.
07:42Cause putting your dreams out there is very scary.
07:44It takes a lot of courage.
07:45So it's really kind to have people embrace your dream
07:49and let you dream, right?
07:51Like, yeah, people can be kind of mean at times
07:55when it's just like, truly it's a dream.
07:57And if it happens, it's even better.
07:59Suck it up.
08:00It's even better.
08:01Even better.
08:02But I'm not going to let anyone tell me I can't dream.
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