''Stucco' is really about not dealing with guilt, anxiety and mental health, and how it can manifest within you.' TheMorningShow and TheWayBack star Janina Gavankar (Janina) opens up about her SXSW directorial debut
The Way BackShe also inadvertently found herself in the spotlight in December when a candid photograph she took of her friend became headline news — the friend was Meghan Markle, whom she has known for years in the acting world, and the photograph was the official Christmas portrait used by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Gavankar deflects any questions about the British royals, who navigated a historic decision to step down from their royal posts to live as private citizens.
, playing news reporter Alison Namazi, alongside Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon and Steve Carell, and was able to use some of her earnings from the show to fund the rest of "Who has [thousands of dollars] to spend on a their own film? Nobody! You know who does? Artists who are terrified of never being able to feed themselves [and] who are children of immigrants," she joked.
Gavankar was able to recruit many of her artist friends and collaborators — Debra Messing, Aisha Tyler andco-star Rafael Casal are among the cast — to tell the feverish tale that Gavankar believed she needed to show in order to sell her skills as a filmmaker. "It's one thing to have directed and produced music videos and taken them to festivals, but it's hard to make people believe you should be taken seriously as a filmmaker without a narrative piece," she explained. The Morning Show
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