Gayety and LGBT editor Caitlynn McDaniel hits the red carpet to chat with Maitreyi Ramakrishnan aka Devi Vishwakumar from 'Never Have I Ever.' Never Have I Ever' is a coming-of-age comedy about the complicated life of a modern-day first-generation Indian American teenage girl. Maitreyi shares that she has always loved Toronto Pride and is excited to go back to Toronto and actually be a part of the Pride parade this year. "Pride is very important. It's important to celebrate love and celebrate unequivocally and boldly."
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00:00 How are you celebrating this month?
00:02 - Celebrating Pride?
00:02 Okay, okay, let me tell you, let me tell you.
00:04 Because I'm excited.
00:05 Because every single summer,
00:07 especially 'cause of COVID, right?
00:09 I've always been in like LA for like the June month.
00:12 And I personally being, you know,
00:14 a Canadian girly from Ontario near Toronto,
00:18 I love Toronto Pride.
00:19 So I've been going like since I was a teenager
00:21 in high school every year, my friends and I would go,
00:23 we volunteer, we hand out free condoms to people
00:26 because safe sex.
00:27 And yeah, this is now because the show's done
00:31 and I'm not filming.
00:32 The first time I get to go back to Toronto
00:34 for the Pride Parade and be a part of the Pride Parade.
00:37 And like I used to when I was like a teenager since 2018.
00:42 Yeah, I'm so excited 'cause I take all my fans with,
00:46 like my fans, my friends, oh my God.
00:48 I mean, they are fans too.
00:49 No, I take all, I like keep hearing
00:52 Jaren out of my corner of my ear.
00:54 Anyways, I keep taking my friends with me
00:57 all these past years.
00:58 We all go together and it's kind of like a whole thing
01:00 for all of us and it's just like a fun chill time
01:02 and it's just good vibes.
01:03 And yeah, so I generally am really excited.
01:06 Pride is very important.
01:07 It's important to celebrate, you know,
01:09 just love and celebrate unequivocally and boldly.
01:13 So yeah, stupid that we have a month for it.
01:16 It's like any kind of month, you know,
01:18 and that we're restricted to a month
01:19 where it's socially acceptable for corporations to do this.
01:22 I'm going on a tangent.
01:23 I'm gonna keep going now, oh God.
01:24 But you know what?
01:25 We deserve this kind of love all year round.
01:27 So that's what I am trying to say in short
01:29 without going on my soapbox, okay, yay.
01:32 Thank you.
01:33 (upbeat music)