Gayety and LGBT editor Caitlynn McDaniel hits the red carpet to chat with Jaren Lewison aka Ben Gross 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. Jaren shared that the show was written brilliantly and it was so "high-level" that it made him nervous, questioning whether he could do it. In the end, he was able to push aside his self-doubt and do his character justice.
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00:00 So I just want to know, was there anything that was really challenging about playing Mindy?
00:06 Oh yeah, I mean the writing for this show is unbelievable. It is so high level, I was a little nervous.
00:13 I was like, can I do all of these levels? Because Never Have I Ever was written brilliantly.
00:18 For every character, Mindy, Lang, the rest of the writers, I mean they are brilliant.
00:21 And there were times I was nervous, where I was like, I don't know if I can do this.
00:26 In the back of my mind there's always sort of that self-doubt, and as an actor you just sort of have to push that aside.
00:31 But I will say, Maitreyi, Darren, the rest of the cast, they would lift me up.
00:36 They could see, Maitreyi especially, she's one of my best friends in real life, she could visibly see.
00:40 And I thought I was good at hiding it, but she'd be like, I want you to know, you're killing it right now.
00:44 I mean it, seriously, you're crushing it. And we would do that for each other a lot, and then I'd be on the top of the world.
00:50 And I don't know, my confidence definitely increased throughout this show, and now I feel like I can kind of tackle anything I guess.
00:57 I just have one other quick question, we're doing scene arts, so it's a little difficult to say.
01:02 Who do you think from the cast is most likely to swim with sharks?
01:05 Ooh, big question.
01:07 Ben Norris, I think he's very adventurous. Or Ramona, Ramona's a good one. I'm going to pick Ramona.
01:13 Ramona's very adventurous, she's like athletic, she loves doing cool stuff.
01:17 I think that's a dark horse candidate, but I'm going to go with Ramona Young.
01:20 on.
01:20 (upbeat music)