You know who’s so fetch right now?
“Mean Girls” breakout star Avantika Vandanapu, better known by her mononym, Avantika.
Avantika is becoming known for her acting talent, bouncy signature curls, and glossy smile.
“I have realized very early on that planning is quite useless,” she admitted toMarie Claire.
Plan or no plan, this actor is going places.
It was actually Avantika’s dance career that led her to the acting world.
Her family moved from California, where Avantika was born, to India to support her career.
Avantika credits her parents' unwavering support for her success.
You must excel.'"
Ultimately, Avantika appreciated this ethos.
However, her career took off, and she kept booking role after role.
She and her family ended up staying in India for three years.
When she was 13, Avantika moved back to the United States.
In real life, Avantika was home-schooled from the age of 5.
Due to the unpredictable travel schedules of the film industry, Avantika enrolled in online school.
When she was 13, she received her GED-equivalent.
However, she enrolled in high school in Los Angeles to get to gain AP credits.
However, she did watch it later.
The 7-year-old actor and her dad saw it on DVD.
She went on to spill the fact her dad fell asleep 10 minutes into the movie.
Like the rest of the world, Avantika was an instant fan and rewatched the film countless times.
“It’s very difficult for me to glamorize cruelty in film, so Karen was easily my favorite.
She was accepted into Columbia University
“Get in losers, we’re going shopping!”
It felt like destiny,” she told Marie Claire.
“I have a passion for learning,” she told the outlet.
“I have a constant fear of getting stupid … Am I still up to par with my peers?”
“It’s just people who are really creatively talented.
And everybody’s just starting out.
There’s something really simple and pure and beautiful about that,” she said.
That’s exactly why Avantika didn’t think she had a shot at landing the role of Karen.
It’s the antithesis of everything that we’ve been told our community is from the very beginning.
But her self-taped audition blew the directors away.
When she finally heard back three months later, she was offered the part.
Everything she did felt truthful, spontaneous, and hilarious.
She embodied the role in such an effortless way."
she told Marie Claire.
Avantika believes women can learn something from Karen, too.
Women have traditionally been taught to reject things deemed too “girly,” but the tides are changing.
Basically, things that kids at my school would snub as vain," she told Vogue India.
“The only reason I would ever watch this is BECAUSE there’s a brown girl in it.
So proud,” commented “Never Have I Ever"actor Richa Moorjani.
Avantika isn’t fazed by the haters.
“If anybody says anything about my acting, I’m like ‘kindly tell me more.’
For the fall scene, Avantika suggested Karen fall face-first into the crowd instead of backwards.
If you’ve seen the new movie, you’ll know it’s a suggestion Fey took on.
“I genuinely have tears in my eyes posting this right now.
[Roshani Chokshi] wrote one of my favorite books [to] date.
“And there’s so much colorism.
