Maitreyi Ramakrishnan Ranks Never Have I Ever Scenes & More

Getting drunk with the popular kids.

I can say this because in Canada I'm 19,

and that's the legal drinking age.

Just relax.

Yeah, we're gonna put that up here.

I definitely drink a lot with my friends.

Are they the popular kids?

I don't know, but they're the cool kids.

Hi, I'm Maitreyi, and today we're gonna be ranking things

throughout my life and career with Teen Vogue.

Am I excited about it?

Very much so.

[Maitreyi laughing]

[gentle music]

I am so indecisive, this is gonna be terrible.

Okay, so this particular category is

all about my performances during all of the moments

that Devi is really dramatic throughout the show

of Never Have I Ever.

Devi talking to the coyote.

You're here to cheer me up, right?

[coyote growling]

I'm impressed with myself on this one.

This is gonna go pretty high

because it was actually a stuffed coyote

that I had to do it to.

Like I had to act to a stuffed coyote,

and pretend it was my dead dad.

Throwing a book out the window.

[Devi yelling]

It was fun, but I'm not impressed, you know?

Because who doesn't like throwing things?

I think anyone could throw out things.

Stay.

So the glass in the window during episode one

where I throw that book out is like candy glass,

so it'd like shattered if you just like tapped it.

And I was very tempted to just tap it, but I didn't.

So it was really nice, you know?

And no one got hurt.

Spying on her mom's date.

Oh, it's a work dinner, getting a lot done.

This one was funny.

This one was funny because I got to be

on a harness on top of a roof for hours.

And then it got really cold and I thought it would be fun,

and then it got really not fun in like two minutes.

Okay, I'm putting this on the bottom for now,

just because I think it's gonna move.

I don't know, I don't know.

I'm indecisive.

This is a lot.

Okay, no, I am decisive.

Storming out of therapy.

Peace out, see you never.

Devi does this a lot.

Are we impressed?

No.

This can go on the.

Can I take this off?

Ha!

Yeah, I can.

Yeah, this is accurate.

I like how this is looking.

Nice functuay.

Okay, we got apology parade at school.

Don't go to an a other school

because you know you're a cricket in your heart.

Telling her mom she wish she died instead of her dad.

Damn.

I wish you were the one that died that night.

This I was proud of because I learned that dance.

I am in that cricket costume.

That was me in the flesh.

I spent many hours and it was really hard to dance

with that big like, cricket head.

But honestly, I'm gonna actually be really proud

of myself and put telling her mom that she wish she died.

Because before season one I've never cried

on camera or like on command.

And I was very happy with how I did that.

I was proud of myself.

It was like a little like, career like thing,

like a little milestone of like,

Oh my God, you did a sad thing.

Anyways, ranked.

Now, we're ranking film and TV characters

that I would most likely wanna play

or definitely really wanna play

to the least I would want to play.

Whoo!

Let's start off strong.

Harley Quinn, Harleen Quinzel.

I'm gonna put her low just because, hear me out.

I love her character so much,

but I would do such an injustice to Margot Robbie.

We'll put her like, I'm so sorry.

Okay, Juliet, Romeo and Juliet.

I don't wanna die in the end.

Doesn't seem like there's much of a future there,

but I'll still do it.

You're at the bottom, sorry, Juliet.

I feel like a lot of my fans know

how much I love Hermione Granger.

When I get asked the question,

who do you see yourself in as a TV character?

And they expect like a brown girl role.

And it's hard to find that representation

of like seeing someone that looks like you.

As a kid though, I always really liked Hermione,

'cause I felt like her personality

and mine were very similar of just being overachievers,

and all of that jazz.

But just like Margot Robbie,

I don't wanna disgrace Emma Watson, so we're just.

I know my like 10-year-old self is screaming

at me right now.

Just do it, just do it.

Not looking back.

We got some good options here.

Princess Toadstool or AKA Princess Peach.

Many of my fans know I love Nintendo.

Hi, I'm Princess Peach.

Mario?

Yeah, pretty good, right?

But alas, ma'am, I'm gonna put you third.

Also just 'cause she only has Super Princess Peach

as a DS game where she's like a main lead,

you know what I'm saying?

On behalf of the Mushroom Kingdom,

I'm very sorry Princess Peach.

Raven, Rapunzel.

Raven's like my favorite superhero character,

because like, dude, Raven.

Like, you know, Rachel Roth.

She has sick powers.

Also her costume, awesome.

And I've also like totally I wanted to dress up

as Raven for Halloween.

It's like my dream couple's costume

except I'm missing the other half

of the couple costume.

TBD on that front.

But I could play Raven.

But alas, no one knows what it's like to be trapped

in a tower with really long hair than a brown girl,

you know, trapped by your own family.

This is sort of like, dream casting here.

Is this just a campaign to get me to be Rapunzel?

This is so weirdly ego boosting, I need to stop.

It's gonna be a reveal here.

We're gonna reveal.

We're gonna reveal.

Watch you guys can still see behind my back,

like it's actually not a reveal?

That'd be embarrassing.

The deed is done.

I'm so sorry.

Like, Hermione, Harley, Juliet,

like, even Princess Peach,

like, they've all definitely have been played

by iconic characters.

Princess Peach is still like a cartoon,

but she's like definitely a white blonde woman

with blue eyes, you know?

And people would kill me if I was Princess Peach,

despite the amazing voice.

I'm not gonna do it again though.

But they're already like established,

and I wanna bring to life something on my own.

Like live action Rapunzel

really hasn't properly happened yet.

And that would be sick.

Yeah, that's definitely why Rapunzel goes on the top.

So I could take up that space on my own.

That was so cheesy.

Next category!

Never have I ever episode titles.

From what I most likely or like would do or have done

to what I would never in my wildest dreams do.

Okay, I'll start off with this one.

Never have I ever felt super Indian.

Okay, I'm putting this in the middle.

We have a middle, right?

We don't have a middle.

Gosh, darn it.

Okay, I'll put this in lower middle,

because I've definitely gone through the times

of like, ah!

When I was younger, I definitely felt Devi's struggle.

You know, I didn't speak the language,

and I can't cook any tamil food.

I didn't do

[Maitreyi speaking in foreign language]

which is like the classical dance many tamil girls do.

But then I grew up, and I realized being tamil is

so much more than that.

It's also knowing just your culture,

and like the different practices that you do,

and the history of just your people.

And also just what you make of it, you know?

Like you are tamil, and yeah I'm gonna put that like

in the upper middle.

You're just gonna go right here.

Throwing a rager, very likely to do that.

I love parties, so that's going, bam!

Right up at the top.

This is not gonna be a list of like what goes on the top,

this is gonna be a list of like,

which one do I really not wanna do?

'Cause there's a lot I don't wanna do here.

Parties, number one.

Getting drunk with the popular kids.

I can say this because in Canada I'm 19,

and that's the legal drinking age.

Just relax.

I can drink.

But I'm not even a huge drinker.

I don't know why I'm defending myself.

Anyways.

Yeah, we're gonna put that up here.

I definitely drink a lot with my friends.

Are they the popular kids?

I don't know.

But they're the cool kids.

Never have I ever been a playa.

I wouldn't be in the circumstance

in which I would be able to cheat.

Like I said, we're still working on the other 50%

of my Raven and Beast Boy couple's costume.

We're gonna.

Yeah, yeah, yeah!

Never have I ever betrayed a friend.

Never have I ever pissed off everybody I know.

Like both episodes are such good ones too.

I'm gonna do never have I ever betrayed a friend

'cause I really do take loyalty super seriously.

And that was the hardest thing to pull off

during filming season one at least,

when Devi picks to go help Paxton because he needs her.

So that's going down.

Just, you know, above infidelity.

Yeah, never have I ever pissed off everybody I know.

It happens, you know?

Despite intentions.

So that's gonna go right here.

You know what?

I'm satisfied.

I love how specific this is.

Are we still rolling? [woman laughing]

Are we still rolling?

[Woman] Yeah.

Hell yeah, we are.

Okay, Oscar and Kevin.

So many great moments between them

in the accounting department.

We love them.

But some of the other names here, sort of better.

I'ma just put them just here.

I'm sorry.

Any Oscar, Kevin fans.

God, I love Kevin.

Kevin and Angela.

Meh.

You know what I'm saying?

Angela was just sort of mean, you know?

Is that a friendship?

No!

Sorry, Kevin and Angela.

You guys are down here.

Jim and Kelly.

But also Dwight and Kelly.

I bring both of you to the table.

Why?

Because let's not forget Kelly's birthday.

They both, Jim and Dwight, pulled through.

Okay, they got that weird banner and black,

and brown, gray balloons.

I actually have a banner that says It is your birthday.

Yeah, Jaren actually got that for my birthday.

So that was a really nice gift.

But aside from that, they both pulled through.

Can't they just?

I can't cross them over.

I can't do that.

Okay.

Dwight and Kelly here, because not a friendship,

I do like their rivalry though.

If it was rivalries, mm.

But Jim is a little nicer to Kelly, you know?

And Kelly deserves the world.

I'm not biased 'cause of Mindy,

why would you say that?

Geez.

Michael and Pam.

Dwight and Pam.

Remember when Pam had that breakdown,

and then Dwight like totally pulled through

with that whole like book of the code of conduct?

But that termite like banner thing

that was across like the whole building

that looked disgusting.

And then Dwight made her feel like she came up with it,

and then she like seize the day?

But then Dwight was like looking over them,

and was like, Yeah.

That was so good.

But then Michael and Pam, they have history.

Okay, Pam comes through with Michael's jeans.

She presses those things for him.

I'm going with my heart,

because Dwight is a God.

And he was a good guy that day.

[Man] Remember when Michael was the only one

that comes to Pam's art ex-

Oh, no!

Wait!

The art exhibit!

And he bought it.

I can't do this.

I lied.

This is the hardest one, not the film and TV character.

Scrap all those characters.

This is.

Well, Pam, maybe you need to make more friends.

I don't know.

No, no, I went with my heart.

During the audition because like, you know, way back when.

Back in the day of a young 17-year-old.

I didn't think like I was gonna go far

in the audition process, to be honest,

I thought it was a fluke,

and that they like emailed the wrong person.

But when I met Mindy, Mindy being

like the most famous person I've ever met before.

I was like, okay, I'm not gonna ever see you again,

I have nothing to lose, we're both humans.

We both shit at the end of the day.

I might as well just tell you, Hey, I'm a huge fan.

I love The Office, it caught me through a lot of times.

And it's my favorite show.

And if anyone asks me like who my acting coaches

because before Never Have I Ever,

I haven't done like acting lessons

or have done other things.

Whenever someone asks me like,

Oh, where did you learn your comedic timing?

Steve Carell, Michael Scott.

[Maitreyi blowing raspberries]

My yearbook quote when I graduated was

a Michael Scott quote.

Would I rather be feared or loved?

Um, easy, both.

I want people to fear how much they love me.

Straightforward, ranking gaming consoles.

This is super easy for me

because I'm pretty die hard

as a fan of Nintendo.

So sorry.

You have the Spider-Man games and I appreciate that,

but other than that, see you later.

Okay, moving on.

Let's get down to business.

We got the GameBoy.

To be honest, I do like, as a kid I really liked playing

on the GameBoy, but my brother would hog it.

So that's why I'll put it lower because he would hog it,

and I didn't get much time to play on it.

But then I also got the DS, like the DS Light.

So I would hog that.

Wii versus GameCube.

Now I'm gonna make an informed decision here,

because the GameCube has more of my favorite games on it,

but the Wii, what can the Wii do

that the GameCube can't do?

Play both kind of games.

The GameCube can only play GameCube games,

but the Wii is also compatible.

Oh my God, you're like ruining my flow here, Velcro.

The Wii can also play GameCube games

with a GameCube controller,

like an authentic real GameCube controller.

So best of both worlds.

Also, who doesn't love good old Wii Sports?

[Maitreyi blowing raspberries]

Yeah, and then number one,

realistically I play the Switch a lot now,

because Switch is great, geez.

Love the good old Switch.

Super Smash Bros Ultimate was a great feat

for the Smash Bros franchise.

This was easy.

Why couldn't The Office be like this one?

All right, that is the end of Ranked.

Thank you, Teen Vogue for having me,

and dealing with my indecisiveness.

Be sure to check out season three, coming soon.

[gentle music]