Raise your hand if you’ve suddenly found yourself in the era of weddings and babies.
Pallavi: I’ll start with your second question first.
Dual heritage is very core to who I am as a person, as an Australian-born Indian woman.
What was it like to work with this guy?
I loved working with him.
Suraj: I loved working with her and it was so much fun.
There was so much to it.
It was so fantastic.
Pallavi: Truth prevails.
Suraj: Truth prevails.
Suraj: 100%.
Pallavi: It’s so easy.
This project is the result of that will, and the results are incredible.
Pallavi: As you said, you relate to it, your sister-in-law relates to it.
[With] a lot of my friends, I’ve seen this story unfold in front of me.
While I haven’t gone through that specific thing, I know the truth of it.
That jumped out at me like, “This is real, this happens.”
These are stigmatized concepts in certain cultures, and often in Indian culture.
That’s one thing we see about Asha from moment one, that she backs herself.
Ultimately, I’ve had to follow my intuition and my gut.
I feel like Asha’s journey is from a childhood Asha who trusted her gut and her intuition.
She’s somewhere, she’s a little bit stuck when we find her.
She’s recalibrating and finding her way again into a part of herself that exists within her.
There’s humility and empathy and openheartedness and softness in that.
I love the yin and yang of Asha’s character and Ravi’s character.
Pallavi: So special.
Suraj: It was freeing.
Like we said, I’ve never been on a set with more than one other Indian.
I’ve done this for so many years.
Pallavi: It was really humbling to work with in that environment.
I think of Veena [Sood], who plays my mom.
In a sense, she’s still pretzeling into that archetype.
I feel like we came so much closer here on this journey.
Suraj: We’ll get there.
Talk about standing on the shoulders of the people who came before you.
That’s a really profound experience, I’m sure.
Suraj: It was, and it’s bolstering.
It is suddenly deeply bolstering.
Suraj: You’re not alone, nobody is alone.
If we do broad strokes, it’s just going to be for show.
So that’s the goal.
Pallavi: Optics versus actualization.
“Wedding Season” drops on Netflix on August 4.
