Yang, is scheduled to be released on Netflix sometime this year. His romantic comedy, Love Hard, which he co-stars in with Nina Dobrev and Jimmy O. He’s lent his voice to three separate animations and is currently working on a video game. Like every other Never Have I Ever fan, Darren is keeping his fingers crossed for a season three confirmation, though he’s been keeping busy with other projects. And it was Devi that gave him the courage to go the extra mile in school.” “The way everyone was looking at him after his presentation wasn’t because he was taking his shirt off he was opening his heart. “It was the first time Paxton felt confident in himself intellectually, and it’s why he climbs through the window to meet with Devi,” he says. VOSMIKOVA/NETFLIXĪnother reason why Darren says Paxton’s Manzanar presentation is so pivotal in the show is that it brings Paxton and Devi ( Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) closer together. He’s researched his family name-Takeda-and has learned more about his grandmother’s time in Japan during the war.ĬLYDE KUSATSU as TED and DARREN BARNET as PAXTON-HALL YOSHIDA in episode 203 of NEVER HAVE I EVER. Though Darren’s family was not incarcerated during the war, as his grandmother immigrated to the United States after World War II in the 50s, he says Paxton’s research into his family’s history inspired his own. I know that the camps aren’t talked about as much as they should be and it’s important they should be remembered.” “I’ve just been overjoyed to hear that Paxton’s family history was able to reach so many people. “I’ve had so many people reach out to thank me for the representation, or to tell me that their grandfather was in an internment camp and the scene made them cry,” he says. The discussion of Japanese American incarceration on a Netflix show encouraged many Japanese Americans with shared history to reach out to Darren on social media. Paxton then brings his grandfather to class to talk about the injustice of being wrongfully imprisoned. Poring through a box of books given to him by his grandfather, he unearths a journal and a photograph of his family at Manzanar, one of the 10 camps the government sanctioned to incarcerate over 120,000 individuals of Japanese descent during the war. Paxton’s heritage plays the most active role in his character this season when he struggles to find personal family history for an extra credit project. Mindy Kaling and her team asked for his permission to make Darren’s heritage a part of Paxton’s character, and Paxton Hall-Yoshida was born. Paxton was simply Paxton Hall until Darren was overheard practicing his high school Japanese with an assistant director on the show. That would all change after Darren was cast in Never Have I Ever. And I felt like if I was cast as a distinctly Asian character, there’d be controversy around that.” ![]() “Even coming into acting, I never really thought about leaning into my Japanese heritage because there’s this feeling I have that I’m not Asian enough to do it. This is the energy I've always wanted to see from Gigi, and thanks to Never Have I Ever, we finally got it.“I felt like I couldn’t fit in anywhere,” he says. Like, lower than Paxton's dad's ponytail," she said. These hippie Christians have some real low expectations for their kid. Seriously - I'm still thinking of when she dragged Paxton's parents. But it's all about the delivery of the line, which Gigi nails, thank you very much. With a ton of hilarious one-liners, you'd think Gigi's job as a narrator is pretty simple. ![]() "We're both constantly underestimated because people only see us as sex symbols."īefore we knew her as one of the most successful supermodels in the world, Gigi was a volleyball-loving teen who was working toward her dreams while living in LA - just like Paxton. ![]() "Believe it or not, I relate to this kid," she said in her voiceover. What tie does Paxton have to Gigi?įrom the beginning of the episode, Gigi says that Paxton is a 16-year-old from California and that she was once in his shoes. While fellow model, Chrissy Teigen, was originally supposed to be Paxton's narrator, showrunners made the change to Gigi after Chrissy was under fire for resurfaced tweets about Courtney Stodden.
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