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Maitreyi had never professionally acted before Never Have I Ever. “The, you know, so many people watching you part of it.” “I never like, of course, prepared myself for the fame part of it,” she says. The “daunting” part comes from the reality of having millions of people observing your every move, an aspect of fame she says she underestimated. (L to R) Ramona Young as Eleanor Wong, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan as Devi, Lee Rodriguez as Fabiola Torres in episode 409 of Never Have I Ever. “It’s my privilege to be able to represent anyone who really can relate to me, not just brown young women like myself,” she says. As a Tamil-Canadian actress playing a Tamil American onscreen, Maitreyi views the responsibility of representation ( 40 million Americans watched Season 1 alone!) as a “privilege” but a “daunting” one. While she may not yet consider herself a serious actor, serving as a role model for millions of teenage girls is a task she does not take lightly. At most, all we’re doing as actors is either providing the people with cancer entertainment or providing the people who are curing cancer with entertainment.” At the end of the day, like, yeah, I’m an actor, I am a public figure, but also being an actor-I’m not curing cancer. “And I can’t just choose not to learn about things because I don’t want to be involved. “I can’t not speak up about what I believe in,” she said with the same emphatic oomph as her character.
She’s outspoken about her beliefs in gender and racial equality and has openly posted about abortion and LGBTQIA+ rights on Twitter. This attitude has followed Maitreyi into her adulthood.
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“I wouldn’t have gotten Never Have I Ever if it wasn’t for public education and extracurriculars because it was free extracurriculars provided by public education that gave me my passion to know I love acting,” she says very firmly. Since Maitreyi was chosen for the part of Devi out of 15,000 kids who responded to an open casting call on Twitter, she has not shied away from staying true to her beliefs, even as her fame continues to rise. (L to R) Maitreyi Ramakrishnan as Devi, Ramona Young as Eleanor Wong in episode 403 of Never Have I Ever. And I was like, ‘No, I’m definitely not taking that down because that’s who I am.’” Never Have I Ever. I led a student walkout for 500 kids in my 700-kid school because of cuts to public education and, therefore, extracurriculars. “Because context: When I was in grade 12, I went on strike. “When I first got the role and then, like, the Deadline article came out, a lot of my Canadian friends were like, ‘Hey, dude, are you going to take down that strike post that you put up from high school?’” she says. It’s something she says she’s never had to think about - being herself in the public eye. It’s wholly indicative of her character - an actress plucked out of obscurity at 17, grounded, down-to-earth, unapologetically herself no matter the circumstance.
That’s the first thing 21-year-old Maitreyi Ramakrishnan tells me when she hops on our Zoom.
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