Hello.
Hi, hello.
I'm Maitreyi.
How are you?
What's up?
It's Hasan.
Hi.
I know who you guys are.
This is crazy.
Oh my god.
I love your show.
I feel like I'm living in a dream.
I just gotta pinch myself.
[THEME MUSIC]
What's up?
Hey.
Oh, my god.
I feel like I'm the fan getting a surprise now.
This is crazy.
OK, we're good now.
We're back.
This is a bummer.
I wanted to meet you in person, but I guess this is--
Right?
But I guess this is how things are done
[THEME MUSIC]
Did you ever see the movie Harold & Kumar
go to White Castle?
OK.
That came out my freshman year of college.
I remember seeing the poster, and I was like, oh my god.
They did it.
Like, they did it.
That's the most amount of Asian people
that will ever be in Hollywood.
I never thought the day would come
where a high school, teen comedy,
anchored by female South Indian--
South Indian, South Asian, female lead.
I never thought that thing would exist on screen,
and to watch you kill all your scenes--
Aw, thank you.
So incredible.
And I was like, yo, the world is shut down, but a star is born.
Aw, thank you.
OK.
Wow, that means a lot.
That means a lot because I really look up to you.
So whoa, whoa.
Have you watched the entire show with your parents?
Yeah, and my grandma.
Shirt off?
Oh yeah.
My grandma is team Ben, though, so--
I'm going to be honest.
I'm on team Prashant.
That's a good team to be on.
I'm team Devi, because self-love.
But it was amazing to see the show.
I wish I had it when I was younger,
but I think it's cool that my cousin who's 10 years
younger than me--
she'll have it.
Yeah, for sure.
I think that's what matters.
How about you?
I have a question for you.
I was going to ask you, like, how did it
feel when you first had that first season of Patriot
Act come out?
Like how was that?
That was really cool.
It was really cool to have a show that was very uniquely
from my perspective.
And I just figured, look, if I have this chance,
I'm going to be as authentic and real as possible.
I just want to do stuff that I think our community would
be proud of, and people would be like, thank you
for talking about that.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Hi!
Producer: How are you doing?
I'm doing great.
How are you?
Hi.
Producer: Good to see you.
You too.
How are you?
[MUSIC PLAYING]
(SINGING) I was born to run, as sure as the setting sun.
Like it's fatal destiny.
The coronavirus-- it just stopped
what was supposed to be the quote, unquote,
"the best year of your life".
It just kind of put a pause on everything, right?
It's like, I don't know where to go from it in a way.
[MUSIC PLAYING] Ooo.
I won't stop till the story's done.
Last year, I stumbled onto the issue of missing and murdered
indigenous women and girls in Canada.
I did an installation of 4,000 dolls, which
were to represent all the missing and murdered indigenous
women and girls in Canada.
SolNote it is a non-profit organization
that I started within my sophomore year of high school,
and it is dedicated to helping children learn music.
And through music therapy and through music collaboration,
basically what we do is we go to foster homes and hospitals,
and we teach kids music.
So we bring a guitar or a piano and our own voice,
and we'll go in, and we'll just have
a jam session with the kids and really
help them discover the music that's inside of them.
Because they might not even know that
they're interested in music beforehand.
One of the shows I really like to watch is Patriot Act.
I really admire Hasan Minhaj.
I absolutely love Patriot Act.
We watched Never Have I Ever in a day.
Also in this industry, there aren't a lot
of people who look like me.
So when I find someone who looks like me, I'm like, yes.
You go!
And I really just want to follow their journey and support them.
Because I don't know.
I feel like that's what it means to be
a part of a collaborative artist community.
You want to surprise someone?
Let's go.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Hi.
Hello.
I'm Maitreyi.
How are you?
I loved you in your show.
You were fantastic.
Aw, thank you.
Hello.
Hey.
What's up?
It's Hasan.
Hi.
I know who you guys are.
This is crazy.
Oh my god.
I love your show.
This is so cool.
This is really surreal because I look up to you guys so much.
I look up to Maitreyi, too.
How's your quarantine?
I'm going to be honest with you right now.
You don't seem very surprised at all.
Yeah, I feel like we let you down now.
No, I am very surprised.
No, no, no.
When I'm surprised, I just smile and freeze.
And that's what I did for like a solid five seconds.
I was like, are you serious?
Soleil, who do you Zoom chat with, just Noah Centineo?
(LAUGHING) No, I don't.
When things open back up again, we wanted to give you
a round-trip ticket to New York to see--
Oh my god.
an art gallery.
As soon as Broadway reopens, we wanted to fly you out
to New York to go see a show.
Oh my god.
You're kidding me.
Yeah.
We also wanted to give you some software for your computer,
CAD, just so you can continue to make art
when you go to university and you continue to do that.
You're going to have a blast.
And also, because your work is so inspiring.
Like I played piano, and when I was a kid,
piano was like my first love.
So the fact that you're still teaching people
and you made them a book to help learn.
Like, that's amazing, girl.
Through quarantine-- go off.
Like, honestly-- yo, you're inspiring me right now.
So we also wanted to donate some instruments to help
you continue on with your work.
Oh my gosh.
This is crazy.
This is the highlight of my senior year for sure.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
That was my first time surprising somebody.
Yeah.
That was really cool.
So I'm glad we got to bring Oprah energy to COVID.
[MUSIC PLAYING]