The audition process was a COVID audition process - the first time Rose and I met, my laptop was on my bookshelf over there and we were auditioning that way. So when I saw she’d written the show, I was really excited. I was a Rose Matafeo fan because I knew her stand-up, and I’d been to her show with friends, and I thought she was brilliant. It does such a good job of portraying a total romantic fantasy in a way that isn’t romanticized. The Cut spoke to Patel about being a Rose Matafeo fanboy, representation, and whether he’d ever date a normie - sorry, civilian. Though he’s best known for his more romantic roles, Patel seeks roles and projects that change up the formula and push the industry forward, regardless of genre. He caused swoonage as Kash Khan, an unsatisfied investment banker–slash–wannabe actor who fell for the wrong woman in Mindy Kaling’s 2019 Hulu remake of Four Weddings and a Funeral, and was a leading man in the hit U.K.
debut, or even his first time playing an actor. It’s not Patel’s first rom-com - or his U.S.
Guy from starstruck movie#
It’s a total fantasy come true, but thanks to the excellent writing of creator Rose Matafeo and co-writer Alice Snedden, it doesn’t feel fantastical at all.Ĭentral to the show’s believability is Nikesh Patel’s endearingly neurotic portrayal of movie star Tom Kapoor. Starstruck, the new BBC series streaming on HBO Max, has a plot straight out of fanfic: Girl meets boy, girl goes home with boy, girl discovers boy is an extremely famous actor but she doesn’t care because she’s cool, boy totally falls in love with her.
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