When Ramakrishnan eventually responded to the email notifying her of her casting - Netflix did call her, but she thought it was a spam call so she didn't answer - it was with the knowledge that she would have to leave her home in Toronto to go film in Los Angeles, where Netflix's headquarters are located and the show is set. She was talking to us like another fan of TV, who happened to be 18 years younger than us. " a big fan of The Office, and the way she was talking to us was not like a scared, deferential foreign teenager.
RELATED: The Handmaid's Tale star Yvonne Strahovski swaps one dystopian set-up for another to play a kickass scientist in The Tomorrow War "She's so comfortable in her own skin, and she just strikes you as not timid at all," Kaling told Vulture when Never Have I Ever first premiered last year. Kaling, 42, in particular, has been Ramakrishnan's biggest champion, behind the scenes and on the record. Ramakrishnan credits co-creator, writer and executive producer Mindy Kaling ( The Office US, The Mindy Project, Ocean's 8 ) and showrunner, writer and producer Lang Fisher ( 30 Rock, The Mindy Project, Brooklyn Nine-Nine ) for lifting her confidence and calming her nerves when they struck. "I remember I had to keep reminding myself, like, 'OK, you're doing the best you can.' Like, you have to trust everyone else to know that you're doing a good job." Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, pictured here with castmate Lee Rodriguez, is the youngest of Never Have I Ever's main cast. RELATED: Eiza González and Isabela Merced on playing 'proud' diverse women " Season 2, especially after knowing all the numbers and the stats that we hit, it was like, 'OK, I love everyone on this cast and crew so much, I don't want to let them down,'" Ramakrishnan, who has recently been cast as Lizzie Bennet in The Netherfield Girls, told 9Honey Celebrity. In the first four weeks after Never Have I Ever 's Season 1 premiere last year, it was watched by over 40 million households worldwide - and, although Ramakrishnan arguably could not have asked for a more successful breakout role, walking onto the set of Season 2 illuminated by a transcontinental spotlight meant there was a pressure weighing on Ramakrishnan's performance like never before. Season 1 of Never Have I Ever explored Devi's (pictured here in Seasn 2 with her mother, Nalini Vishwakumar, played by Poorna Jagannathan) grief over the death of her father, and how it manifested in Devi's daily interactions at school. " was just truly about me learning everything and just trying to have a fun time and, you know, just learn all the techniques of what it means to act because I didn't know anything or any better," Ramakrishnan, who was 17 when she was cast as Devi, tells 9Honey Celebrity.
The 19-year-old, whose most illustrious role prior to Never Have I Ever was as Velma Kelly in a high-school production of Chicago, admits that her inexperience may have served her well going into production of the series' first season last year. RELATED: Gossip Girl reboot stars Thomas Doherty and Evan Mock explain massive plot twist in first episode
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