For Sex Lives of College Girls' Amrit Kaur, Breaking Stereotypes Is Just Part of the Job
17.11.2022 - 19:41
/ glamour.com
By Amrit Kaur and Bela Malhotra, her character on , share a common origin story: their parents wanted them to go into neuroscience. Of course, life had other plans for both.“When I first told my parents I wanted to go to theater school I wasn’t brave enough to do it myself,” Kaur tells me. But like Bela, Kaur dreamed of being an entertainer—and had the ambition and drive to make it happen.
(In the new season of Sex Lives of College Girls, now streaming on HBO Max, a character calls Bela “pathologically confident.” It’s a compliment.) So she negotiated with her parents to pay for improv classes. The investment certainly paid off: In an ensemble cast full of dynamic stars that includes Reneé Rapp, , and Alyah Chanelle Scott, Kaur is a standout. If Sex Lives creator gets anything, it’s how to cast people the audience can and will fall in love with. Kaur is no exception to that rule.But like so many children of immigrant parents, and specifically those of South Asian backgrounds, myself included, Kaur didn’t grow up seeing much representation on screen.
As much as we love rom-coms like Never Been Kissed, She’s All That, or You’ve Got Mail, it’s no secret that they lack diversity. But that’s been changing in recent years, and Kaur is doing her part in shoving old stereotypes out the door. In Sex Lives, Bela takes on the comedic patriarchy and tricky roommate dynamics all while relentlessly getting her flirt on.
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