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