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All of the actors that have served to me as inspiration over the years have been those more associated with dramatic work who have, in turn, been able to embody their characters and lose themselves in those characters that they create.
~ Adhir Kalyan
Able
Actor
Associated
Been
Characters
Create
Dramatic
Dramatic Work
Embody
Inspiration
Lose
Me
More
Over
Served
Themselves
Those
Turn
Who
Work
Years
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By the time I auditioned for 'Aliens in America,' the July 7 bombing had happened in London. So I'd had those experiences where I would get onto the Tube, and people would get off. So there was a lot about Raja that I understood.
~ Adhir Kalyan
About
Alien
America
Bombing
By The Time
Experiences
Get
Had
Happened
July
London
Lot
Off
Onto
People
Those
Time
Tube
Understood
Where
Would
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Growing up in this post-apartheid era, the first generation of teens in South Africa living in this new democracy, I often found myself feeling different. I was often the only person of color in an otherwise all-white school. And within the Indian community, because of my training with an English acting teacher, my accent was very different.
~ Adhir Kalyan
Accent
Acting
Africa
Because
Color
Community
Democracy
Different
English
Era
Feeling
First
First Generation
Found
Generation
Growing
Growing Up
Indian
Living
Myself
New
Often
Only
Otherwise
Person
School
South
South Africa
Teacher
Teens
Training
Up
Very
Within
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I create a playlist for each and every character that I play.
~ Adhir Kalyan
Character
Create
Each
Every
Play
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I usually just go on Google and spend my hours just Googling Jennifer Beals. I think it's possible that I have a slightly unordinary obsession with her. YouTube videos. Interviews with her. Pictures I put on my desktop and my phone.
~ Adhir Kalyan
Desktop
Go
Google
Her
Hours
I Think
Interviews
Jennifer
Just
Obsession
Phone
Pictures
Possible
Put
Slightly
Spend
Think
Videos
YouTube
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I was raised in a spirit of the importance of service to your fellow man. My mom is a senator back home in South Africa. My father is a very caring and generous individual.
~ Adhir Kalyan
Africa
Back
Caring
Father
Fellow
Fellow Man
Generous
Home
I Was Raised
Importance
Individual
Man
Mom
Raised
Senator
Service
South
South Africa
Spirit
Very
Your
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I'm not auditioning to play convenience-store clerks. I don't see any benefit in that.
~ Adhir Kalyan
Any
Auditioning
Benefit
Play
See
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If I hadn't left South Africa, I felt I was at risk of being pigeonholed. I looked around and saw actors who, 10 to 15 years into their careers, were still playing stereotypical Afrikaans characters, stereotyped Indian characters. That was not something that I wanted for myself.
~ Adhir Kalyan
Actor
Africa
Around
Being
Careers
Characters
Felt
Indian
Left
Looked
Myself
Pigeonholed
Playing
Risk
Saw
Something
South
South Africa
Stereotypical
Still
Wanted
Were
Who
Years
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Perhaps because my background is theatrical, I have a great affinity with the classics. Hamlet has always been a character of great interest to me and a character I would really love to play. Or a character in a Tennessee Williams play, maybe Tom in 'The Glass Menagerie.'
~ Adhir Kalyan
Affinity
Always
Background
Because
Been
Character
Classics
Glass
Great
Hamlet
Interest
Love
Maybe
Me
Perhaps
Play
Really
Tennessee
Tennessee Williams
Theatrical
Tom
Williams
Would
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The opportunity to completely become someone else and inhabit them is something that has always fascinated me greatly as an actor. With a bit of fortune, a few more of those opportunities will lie waiting for me in the future.
~ Adhir Kalyan
Actor
Always
Become
Bit
Else
Fascinated
Few
Fortune
Future
Greatly
Inhabit
Lie
Me
More
Opportunities
Opportunity
Someone
Something
Them
Those
Waiting
Will
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What I try to do with the accent of any character I play is not necessarily to do something that's generic - an Indian accent and that's how it sounds, for example. I think the accent needs to sound authentic on this person.
~ Adhir Kalyan
Accent
Any
Authentic
Character
Example
For Example
Generic
How
I Think
Indian
Necessarily
Needs
Person
Play
Something
Sound
Sounds
Think
Try
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BirthDate
04 August, 1983
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South Africa
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