There's certainly that almost all of the American Idol winners and contestants vanish into obscurity. In fact, some have absolutely been nothing short of forgotten. But then there are the outliers. Those who have gone directly to do good stuff and become outlandishly successful. The thing is, no longer all of them have purely centered on the music business.
Anoop Desai is one of them. While the American Idol season 8 contestant nonetheless plays beneath the identify TOTEM, he's changing into more well-known for his paintings in television. Mainly in Russian Doll, Billions, and, of course, as Djinn in What We Do within the Shadows.
Why Anoop Desai Started An Acting Career After American Idol
In an interview with Vulture, Anoop discussed his transition from American Idol to the world of television. Specifically, to what is easily one of essentially the most outrageously strange comedies in contemporary reminiscence.
"There was a part of me that was uncomfortable with the notoriety that surrounds a show like American Idol, because it became very clear, people are fans of the show, they’re not necessarily fans of you," Anoop admitted.
"And through my experience in the music industry, I feel like there was always this assumption of acting, really. I felt like I was acting in order to play a person or a musician/artist that people could get behind."
"I think that in my heart of hearts, I have always been an actor. It’s part of the music industry, and it was exhausting in the music industry and during Idol," Anoop persevered. "And as I began exploring acting a little more and reconnecting with my improv roots, my theater roots, everything that I grew up on, it became really apparent that I love acting."
On top of this, Anoop's deep-dive into appearing allowed him to really feel extra comfortable coping with fans.
"The ability to come on a show like [What We Do in the Shadows] and just play around and know that does not affect the way that people are going to see me as a person, is very freeing. Because as an actor, no one expects that you’re going to walk around like your character all the time. So that’s very freeing, and not having to feel like, 'Oh, I need to live up to some image of what people saw or what people expect.' A lot of that is just getting older, too."
Anoop Desai On Playing Djinn In What We Do In The Shadows
Anoop Desai's Djinn is one of the newest characters to be added to the hit FX display. In his interview with Vulture, Anoop defined that as a result of of his familiarity with the show, he was once fast to find the character.
"The character was fully formed in my mind almost immediately, with the glasses and the deadpan and all the things that have been hallmarks of the character this season," Anoop explained to Vulture.
"The script was hilarious, I was laughing out loud just reading the sides. It was the p*nis enlargement scene, so it was pretty funny, and I just love that they encouraged improv in the self-tape that I sent in," Anoop said of his audition process.
"Originally it was going to be two episodes, and then over the course of the writers fleshing out the season and me being on set, the chemistry obviously worked really, really well. Yeah, so just a happy circumstance where I got to audition for one of my favorite shows and it went my way."
During his interview with Vulture, Anoop also printed that he drew inspiration for Djinn from his revel in with his Indian family.
"My family’s from India — my dad’s from Bombay — and when you go there, if you want something fixed or you want to get a cell phone or anything that we take for granted here that we can do online, you have to go somewhere and ask someone to help you. And it’s a to-do, everyone is busy, like, 'Okay, I don’t really have time for you.' I just have in my mind this guy in Bombay and he has his glasses down, he’s busy doing something, and even though you want to pay him for something, it’s like you’re bothering him. Like, God, haven’t we all gone through that in tax season? Pinging your accountant and being like, 'Hey, just want to follow up, is there anything going on here?'"
Anoop went on to say, "I think the idea of him being busy with nothing is kind of where that comes from. The idea that I’ve been sitting in this lamp for who knows how many years, I’m not really doing anything, but still it’s like, I’m put upon by the fact that I have to do something for you. Making Nandor feel guilty about using the wishes, even though I want him to use them up as quickly as possible."
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