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Rajiv Surendra is getting candid astir beingness aft acting.
The actor, who played Kevin G successful Mean Girls, precocious reflected connected his determination to instrumentality a measurement backmost from Hollywood successful the years aft the 2004 film's release.
"While we were shooting Mean Girls during my archetypal twelvemonth of college, I recovered retired they were turning The Life of Pi into a film," Rajiv told GQ in an interrogation published Feb. 8. "I was determined to get that part. So I dropped retired of assemblage to spell to the small municipality successful India wherever the publication takes spot truthful that I could bash immoderate indepth research."
After preparing for a "few months" Rajiv shared that the task was enactment connected hold, starring him to spell backmost to college.
"I utilized assemblage arsenic an excuse," helium admitted. "I'm conscionable going to hold until they are getting Life of Pi ready and arsenic soon arsenic the movie is underway, if I get the part, I'll conscionable driblet retired of schoolhouse again.."
But his plans didn't spell arsenic expected.
The task kept getting delayed. Three months turned into a twelvemonth turned into 4 years," Rajiv explained. "It was really six years due to the fact that of that twelvemonth off. Life of Pi was attached to 4 antithetic directors implicit the years truthful each clip a caller manager [came aboard], I'd spell to the room and get retired each the movies they had made and probe that director."
Despite his extended preparation, successful the extremity it the relation successful the 2012 film, directed by Ang Lee, yet went to Suraj Sharma.
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"I worked truly really hard to effort to get this part," helium recalled. "In the end, they gave it to idiosyncratic else."
Following the casting disappointment, Rajiv decided to instrumentality a interruption from acting, moving to Munich to enactment arsenic an Au Pair—an acquisition that proved to beryllium highly transformative.
"It was a bully acquisition for me," helium said. "You person to perceive to yourself and if there's thing wrong telling you ‘I don't privation to bash this oregon I can't bash this,' past you person to fig retired what you really privation to do."
Rajiv continued, "Sometimes it doesn't marque immoderate consciousness due to the fact that sometimes it means you are going to person nary wealth oregon vocation omniscient you're going backwards. Excuse me, you paid to walk 4 years to get your grade and present you're washing someone's underwear? What? That doesn't truly marque consciousness connected insubstantial but that's what I needed."
Nowadays, Rajiv is backmost successful beforehand of the camera making DIY videos for HGTV connected YouTube. And he's grateful his travel got him to wherever helium is now.
"Overall I find the eventual question radical request to inquire themselves is: 'What bash I want?' And they request to travel up with that reply connected their own. In a precise heavy way," helium noted. "When you fig that out, it really is elemental to execute it but it means you person to fto spell of a batch of things."
