Bela Bajaria

Because when I moved to L.A., Indian girl, British accent, grew up in a big extended Indian family, had parents that were self-employed, so they weren't in corporate America with access to lots of different people.

It was really kind of a big Indian community.

And when I moved here, first I got teased alongside a British accent, even though I wish I had kept it.

Somebody should have told me way better to keep it as you get older.

But when you're nine, you can't.

The sort of brown Indian and the British accent was a bit too much.

And so something had to go.

The brown was obviously not going anywhere.

And so I would go home every single day after school and I would watch film and TV.

And it was to do a couple of things.

One, to get rid of my accent.

This is why I sound like I'm on a TV show in the U.S., basically.

Oh, I watched so many things.

I watched I Dream of Jeannie and Bewitched and Gomer Pyle.

Did you try to wiggle your nose?

I know.

Oh, my God.

All the time.

Yeah.

I could never get it.