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  • Jeff Garlin joins ‘Never Have I Ever’ final season 

    By Express News Service

    American actor and stand-up comedian Jeff Garlin, best known for playing Murray Goldberg in the sitcom The Goldberg, has been cast in the teen drama Never Have I Ever and will appear in the upcoming fourth season of the Netflix show.

    Jeff plays the role of Len, a friendly person who will make Devi’s grandmother Nirmala reconsider her relationship status by sparking her interest.

    It is to be noted that Never Have I Ever is the first project signed by the actor after The Goldberg. He left the show in December 2021 and said that he was subjected to HR investigations for his alleged behaviour on the sets. Garlin did not appear in the show in the ninth season and subsequently, his character died in the tenth season.

    Never Have I Ever follows the Indian-American teen Devi Vishwakumar (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) as she navigates through her high school life, romantic pursuits, and friendships, amid her strict and traditional Indian household. The upcoming will be the fourth and final season of the show. It is expected to premiere in 2023.

    American actor and stand-up comedian Jeff Garlin, best known for playing Murray Goldberg in the sitcom The Goldberg, has been cast in the teen drama Never Have I Ever and will appear in the upcoming fourth season of the Netflix show.

    Jeff plays the role of Len, a friendly person who will make Devi’s grandmother Nirmala reconsider her relationship status by sparking her interest.

    It is to be noted that Never Have I Ever is the first project signed by the actor after The Goldberg. He left the show in December 2021 and said that he was subjected to HR investigations for his alleged behaviour on the sets. Garlin did not appear in the show in the ninth season and subsequently, his character died in the tenth season.

    Never Have I Ever follows the Indian-American teen Devi Vishwakumar (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) as she navigates through her high school life, romantic pursuits, and friendships, amid her strict and traditional Indian household. The upcoming will be the fourth and final season of the show. It is expected to premiere in 2023.

  • Reese Witherspoon’s son Deacon Phillippe to make acting debut 

    By Express News Service

    Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe’s 18-year-old musician son Deacon Phillippe will make his acting debut in the third season of the Netflix comedy, Never Have I Ever.

    Created by Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher, Never Have I Ever follows Indian American teenager Devi Vishwakumar as she navigates the ups and downs of high school life.

    Deacon will guest star as Parker, a newcomer in the orbit of Devi. According to a release from Netflix, Parker is a member of a rival debate team from a rich private school. His lifestyle offers him certain advantages that allow him to coast as a student, so he’s always ready to party.

    Never Have I Ever was renewed for two more seasons, with the fourth season planned to be released in 2023. The third season is set to premiere on August 12. 

    Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe’s 18-year-old musician son Deacon Phillippe will make his acting debut in the third season of the Netflix comedy, Never Have I Ever.

    Created by Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher, Never Have I Ever follows Indian American teenager Devi Vishwakumar as she navigates the ups and downs of high school life.

    Deacon will guest star as Parker, a newcomer in the orbit of Devi. According to a release from Netflix, Parker is a member of a rival debate team from a rich private school. His lifestyle offers him certain advantages that allow him to coast as a student, so he’s always ready to party.

    Never Have I Ever was renewed for two more seasons, with the fourth season planned to be released in 2023. The third season is set to premiere on August 12.
     

  • Never Have I Ever  Season 3 premiere date revealed

    By Express News Service

    Devi and her goof-ups will continue as the third season of Never Have I Ever is returning to Netflix soon. The streaming giant announced that the show will premiere on August 12. The successful coming-of-age drama, created by Mindy Kaling of The Office fame, chronicles the struggles of Devi (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan), an Indian-American student grappling with the sudden loss of her father.

    The second season ended with Paxton (Barnet) and Devi patching things up and dancing at the prom. According to season three stills, it appears that the couple is doing well. Netflix also released new photos featuring cast Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Darren Barnet, Jaren Lewison, Richa Moorjani, Poorna Jagannathan, Lee Rodriguez, and Ramona Young.

    Created by Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher, the fourth and final season is expected to premiere sometime in 2023. The show also has tennis great John McEnroe as the narrator. Never Have I Ever is produced by Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, in association with 3 Arts Entertainment, Original Langster, and Kaling International.

  • Mindy Kaling adapting ‘Hana Khan Carries On’ novel as Amazon film

    By PTI

    LOS ANGELES: Actor-writer Mindy Kaling and Amazon Studios are working on a feature film adaptation of the novel “Hana Khan Carries On” by Uzma Jalaluddin.

    According to Variety, the story puts a modern Muslim spin on a premise first made famous by the Ernst Lubitsch classic “The Shop Around the Corner”, which was later updated with Nora Ephron’s “You’ve Got Mail”.

    The book revolves around two competing Halal shops.

    Hana’s family owns a restaurant called Three Sisters in the Golden Crescent neighbourhood of Toronto, and its business is threatened when a more commercial, fusion-based eatery moves in down the street.

    The catch is that Hana and Aydin, the owner of the other restaurant, have an instant romantic connection.

    Sahar Jahani will write the script of the film, while Kaling and Jessica Kumai Scott will produce under their banner Kaling International.

    The second season of the Netflix series “Never Have I Ever”, co-created and executive produced by Kaling, started streaming in July. 

  • ‘Never Have I ever’ star Maitreyi Ramakrishnan second person of South Asian descent on Teen Vogue cover

    By IANS

    LOS ANGELES: ‘Never Have I Ever’ star Maitreyi Ramakrishnan is the second person of South Asian descent to grace the cover of the popular Teen Vogue magazine solo.

    Versha Sharma, who is the editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue described Maitreyi as a rising star on her post on Instagram.

    Sharma, who is the first South Asian American Editor-in-Chief of Teen Vogue, wrote alongside the cover: “My first cover for @teenvogue is here and I could not be happier that it’s @maitreyiramakrishnan, rising star and hilarious talent, looking extra fashionable, surrounded by books. It’s classic brown girl vibes + back to school all in one.”

    “The features by@aaminasdfghjkl and photos by@heathersten are so fantastic. link in bio to see it all + my letter (partially to you, partially to my younger self) about why it means so much to me to choose a cover star like Maitreyi – a brown girl allowing so many of us to see ourselves portrayed in a way that is exactly how we grew up. (finally!) and that’s all possible thanks to@mindykaling, too!” Sharma added.

    ALSO READ | We need more representation, there’s a market for it: ‘Never Have I Ever’ star Maitreyi Ramakrishnan

    A post from a New York-based media portal The Juggernaut, wrote on the photo-sharing website: “At 19 years old, @maitreyiramakrishnan has made history as only the second person of South Asian descent to grace the cover of @teenvogue solo.”

    With Maitreyi, Poorna Jagannathan and Richa Moorjani leading the cast, ‘Never Have I Ever’ is a coming-of-age story that examines Indian culture against an American backdrop.

  • We need more representation, there’s a market for it: ‘Never Have I Ever’ star Maitreyi Ramakrishnan

    By PTI
    NEW DELHI: “Never Have I Ever” star Maitreyi Ramakrishnan says the popularity of the young-adult Netflix series, co-created by Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher, proves that there is a growing market for stories with South Asians in the lead roles.

    Ramakrishnan, a Sri Lankan-Canadian, became the breakout star of the series when she beat out competition from 15,000 others in 2019 to land the character of Devi Vishwakumar, an overachieving Indian-American teenager growing up in Southern California, US, and navigating life as a teenager with best friends Eleanor (Ramona Young) and Fabiola (Lee Rodriguez).

    The streamer released the second season of “Never Have I Ever” on Thursday. After a successful debut, the actor, now 19, said she was initially under a lot of pressure to not let down the fans and creators with season two but eventually decided to enjoy the process.

    “I think the reason why people like the show is because we haven’t seen South Asians take the lead role as often as they should. It’s happened before, I’m sure, and most of the time it’s because they make that space for themselves,” she said, citing the example of show’s co-creator Kaling, who also wrote and starred in “The Mindy Project” and “Late Night”.

    “But that’s not enough. We need more representation and need to see more South Asians take those lead roles because clearly there is a market for it, and a want for it,” Ramakrishnan told PTI in a Zoom interview.

    In the first season, Devi was shown as a teenager with anger issues as she grapple with the sudden death of her father. She is nursing a crush on fellow student Paxton Hall Yoshida (Darren Barnett). But at the end of the first season, she is caught in a love-triangle with her nemesis at school, Ben Gross (Jaren Lewison).

    In the second season of the series, narrated by tennis player John McEnroe, Devi is trying to double date Ben and Paxton as her mother Dr Nalini (played by Poorna Jagannathan) prepares to shift base to India. Devi, Ramakrishnan said, is maturing “just a little bit” in the second season.

    She tries to be a good child but is not always successful. “I think she’s grown up a little bit and she understands that there are consequences to her actions. Listening to the voice mails that her dad left, she realises that she can’t just be angry anymore. Season one Devi would probably punch a wall, but now she’s trying to keep it controlled and be a good person. Now Devi tries to take the mature route, even if it doesn’t work out in the end,” the actor said.

    Life has changed in a lot of ways for Ramakrishnan but staying with her parents due to the pandemic has ensured that it’s not too drastic. “My life has changed in a lot of ways because I’m now doing interviews, that’s something I wouldn’t have done before. But then it’s also stayed the same in other ways, like staying still at home and being with my family, still bothering my dog, and that’s probably because of quarantine. It’s helped me stay true to who I am, which I’m very thankful for,” she said.

    The young star, whose parents migrated to Canada from Sri Lanka, said she would have opted for a theatre degree had she not landed the show. She credited her mother for encouraging her to pursue higher studies in the arts as she could see “how much I enjoyed acting, directing, writing and just being a part of the creative space”.

    According to Ramakrishnan, the show may revolve around teens and school life but it resonates with people of all ages as it is relatable, funny, and represents many of them. “It’s slightly different because it’s not necessarily the immigrant story but rather the children of immigrants, that’s what I lived my entire life. I understood the narrative that Devi goes through because that was me. And here’s why I think other people like it, and not just high school kids because it’s really relatable and funny. It’s also a show that hasn’t happened (before). People have been waiting for this representation. They’ve been waiting for this story and see themselves in Devi, even if they’re not 15 or 22,” she said.

    Ramakrishnan has also booked her first film role with “The Netherfield Girls”, a Netflix romantic comedy.

  • Chrissy Teigen exits Netflix comedy ‘Never Have I Ever’ after ‘bullying’ revelations

    By ANI
    WASHINGTON: American model and TV personality Chrissy Teigen has existed a guest voice role in the Netflix comedy ‘Never Have I Ever’ in the wake of revelations that she once engaged in online bullying against model Courtney Stodden.

    Teigen decided to step away from the role, which would have occurred in one episode, according to a spokesperson for the show, reported The Hollywood Reporter.

    Teigen opted to drop out of the planned voice role in one episode of the upcoming second season of the Netflix coming of age comedy from Mindy Kaling. The series features voice-over narration for key characters performed by guest actors.

    A spokesman for the show said the role is expected to be recast. ‘Never Have I Ever’ revolves around a first-generation Indian American teenage girl navigating high school while dealing with the loss of her father.

    The previous season featured voiceover narration by famed tennis player John McEnroe for Maitreyi Ramakrishnan’s character Devi.

    Teigen issued a public apology on May 12 after Stodden revealed in an interview with Daily Beast that Teigen harassed them online a decade ago after Stodden married actor Doug Hutchison when they were 16 and he was 60.

    Stodden revealed that Teigen sent them direct messages with cruel taunts such as “I can’t wait for you to die.”

    Teigen apologised to Stodden publicly in a lengthy Twitter post.

    “Not a lot of people are lucky enough to be held accountable for all their past bulls– in front of the entire world. I’m mortified and sad at who I used to be. I was an insecure, attention seeking troll,” Teigen wrote in the post.

    The model, who has 13.5 million followers on Twitter and 34.9 million followers on Instagram, has not tweeted since her three-part apology on May 12. Her last Instagram post on May 11 featured a page from one of her cookbooks.

    ‘Never Have I Ever’ hails from Universal Television. Mindy Kaling created the series with Lang Fisher, who is executive producer and showrunner. Kaling also serves as executive producer with 3 Arts Entertainment’s Howard Klein and David Miner.

  • Maitreyi Ramakrishnan to make feature debut with Netflix’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’ adaptation

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: “Never Have I Ever” breakout star Maitreyi Ramakrishnan has booked her first film role with “The Netherfield Girls”, a romantic comedy set up at Netflix.

    The project marks Ramakrishnan’s second project with the streamer following the coming-of-age series “Never Have I Ever”.

    “The Netherfield Girls” is described as a “fresh and contemporary” take on “Pride and Prejudice” in the vein of teen comedies like “Easy A” and “10 Things I Hate About You”.

    According to Variety, Ramakrishnan will play Lizzie Bennet, the protagonist of Jane Austen’s classic novel who eventually discovers the man she thinks is Mr Wrong is in fact Mr Right.

    Becca Gleason, known for the Joey King-starrer “Summer ’03”, is directing the film from an original script she wrote.

    Temple Hill Entertainment is producing “The Netherfield Girls”, which was sold to Netflix.

    A release date has not been announced.

    Meanwhile, Ramakrishnan is set to reprise her role of Devi in the second season of “Never Have I Ever”, slated to start streaming in July.