![]() ![]() So I wonder, before you were cast in this role, did you ever think a show like yours would exist? But you're a bit younger than me, and you grew up with a slightly different media landscape than I did. We love your show because it feels like something we never got to have when we were teens. And part of the reason why I and so many other grown women of color – I'm talking like, girl, you got fans in their 30s and 40s. Luse: This series was so special to me because I love teen dramas, and the genre has mostly sidelined people of color as supporting characters. I can't say, "Random Hater 706 doesn't know me," if I don't know who I am myself. And the best and pretty much only way to truly convince yourself that these random trolls out there on the interwebs don't know you, is by knowing who you are yourself. Like, the ones that truly are just like, "Oh, she's so annoying." Those comments really suck, because I want to know why, what is it about me that is annoying? Tell me.Īnd then you have to remind yourself, no, they don't know you. The haters that really get to me are the ones that truly have no rhyme or reason. Luse: I wonder, though, you bring up haters. I'm not going to let some random troll on social media tell me, "Rapunzel's actually of German origin, so it technically does not make sense to the film." South Asian people exist in Germany. That's my dream, and I'm going to do whatever it takes for me to achieve that. That is my dream role as a brown girl that has had her grandma put coconut oil in her hair since she was like a child. I like to think that those negative people are just really loud and obnoxious. She is doing nothing controversial by taking on a fictional freaking mermaid. I'm like, no, no, there's no controversy. I hate that people have been calling it a controversy. People that are like, "Why is Little Mermaid Black?" Don't even get me started. Ramakrishnan: First of all, social media so skewed. And I wonder, for you, being someone who reimagines characters not just in cosplay – soon you're going to be playing the character of Lizzie Bennet from Pride and Prejudice in the Netherfield Girls for Netflix – how do you react to that backlash? Things have been changing more recently, and these shows and films have been facing backlash from some audiences for having more diverse casts. Luse: Franchises like Star Wars and Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones – all of those projects have a legacy of ultra-white casts. On diversifying characters and dealing with haters A princess." I'm like, "Oh, my God, that is so wholesome." And I'm like, I like this character and I just want to dress up as this character, you know? It's so freaking cool when I'm walking around as Princess Peach and then I hear like a little girl gasp and is like, "Oh. No, I feel like the characters that I like to play, whether it's Princess Peach or videogame characters like Lisa from Genshin Impact are just characters that maybe traditionally don't look like me, but I still think are dope. I wonder, what is it about cosplay that appeals to you? Maitreyi Ramakrishnan: I'm just obsessed with my job. A lot of people do that, I think, because they want to pretend to be someone else for a little while. Brittany Luse: It's interesting to me that you're into cosplay. ![]()
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