![]() ![]() I worked really really hard to try to get this part. It was actually six years because of that year off. ‘Life of Pi’ was attached to four different directors over the years so every time a new director, I’d go to the library and get out all the movies they had made and research that director. “Three months turned into a year turned into four years. “The project kept getting delayed,” he said. Surendra said going back to college was mostly a time-filler, as he intended to “drop out of school again” once the “Life of Pi” movie got back off the ground. They lost their director and the project ended up getting put on hold so I went back to college.” I assumed that it was going to happen any day now and it didn’t. I did that for a few months and came back and was just waiting for them to start production. “So I dropped out of college to go to the little town in India where the book takes place so that I could do some in-depth research. I was determined to get that part,” Surendra said. “While we were shooting ‘Mean Girls’ during my first year of college, I found out they were turning ‘The Life of Pi’ into a film. But what ever happened to Surendra in real life? GQ magazine recently caught up with him 19 years after “Mean Girls.” Surendra revealed that he tried to stick with acting post-“Mean Girls” by nabbing the lead role in Ang Lee’s “ Life of Pi,” but it ended disastrously. Surendra starred as the hormonal Mathletes president (with a flair for rapping) in Tina Fey’s “ Mean Girls,” becoming one of the film’s most quotable supporting characters. Millennial moviegoers may not recognize the name Rajiv Surendra, but they certainly know Kevin Gnapoor. ![]()
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