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Since the NOC launched in 2013, actress Janina Gavankar has been one of the community’s biggest celebrity boosters. Now, finally, Janina is able to join us on Hard NOC Life! In the intervening years, she has racked up the nerd bona fides by starring in Arrow, True Blood, and Sleepy Hollow. But now, she is part of the biggest nerd franchise of them all: as Iden Versio in the blockbuster game franchise Star Wars: Battlefront II.
Keith and Janina discuss her upbringing in an immigrant household in Illinois and her initiation as a drumcore geek as a teenager. Then, they talk about her gamer origins and what it’s like coming on to projects while also being a fan of the properties. They also talk about how important it is to see a brown girl be the face of something like Star Wars and what it was like portraying a character as nuanced as Iden Versio. Later, she exposes the Desi Illuminati, endorses the Desi Geek Girls podcast, and shouts out everyone’s Iden cosplay!
All this and more on Hard NOC Life! Watch it on your screen, hit “play,” and check this. Subscribe to all of podcasts in the Hard NOC Media family on Apple Podcasts and Google Play!
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Since the NOC launched in 2013, actress Janina Gavankar has been one of the community’s biggest celebrity boosters. Now, finally, Janina is able to join us on Hard NOC Life! In the intervening years, she has racked up the nerd bona fides by starring in Arrow, True Blood, and Sleepy Hollow. But now, she is part of the biggest nerd franchise of them all: as Iden Versio in the blockbuster game franchise Star Wars: Battlefront II.
Keith and Janina discuss her upbringing in an immigrant household in Illinois and her initiation as a drumcore geek as a teenager. Then, they talk about her gamer origins and what it’s like coming on to projects while also being a fan of the properties. They also talk about how important it is to see a brown girl be the face of something like Star Wars and what it was like portraying a character as nuanced as Iden Versio. Later, she exposes the Desi Illuminati, endorses the Desi Geek Girls podcast, and shouts out everyone’s Iden cosplay!
All this and more on Hard NOC Life! Watch it on your screen, hit “play,” and check this. Subscribe to all of podcasts in the Hard NOC Media family on Apple Podcasts and Google Play!
As always, our official theme music is brought to you by the super team of Adam WarRock and Chops.
It started as an idea…
Look fam, LOOK. Even the most diehard comic book and film fans can admit that the oversaturation is here. Comic book movies and TV shows pop up everywhere these days more than sympathetic essays on hate groups. Every week there’s an announcement, another obscure character getting a live action treatment. And look, we’re mostly here for it cuz the game watered down so much, there’s no longer pressure for us diehards to indulge everything that drops cuz it ain’t slowing down anyway.
But this shit right here? This shit right here my Avenger?!?! Nah fam, we bout to sit back, find the biggest wine glass you got in the cabinet in the living room that you weren’t allowed to go in as a kid, and drink all this good Infinity in.
First of all, this, this is how you do large scale action and consequence. This is what all-out war in the comic book universe should look like. Your shit shouldn’t be just decorated with lots of CG parademons with the color pallet from Ghostbusters II splashed on the backdrop. This shit look like the world is literally ending. STAKES Y’ALL. STAAAAAAKES. And everybody here, fam. Ayebody.
Banner seems to have come back after he was scared the Hulk straight jacked him for his consciousness. Black Widow Blonde Hair Don’t Care. Tony Stark hoodies up. Doctor “something in the temporal Strange for Some Change” back. Vision and Scarlett trying to get that Danielle Steel romance novel popping off. As the great philosopher and poet Lester Freamon once said, “All The Pieces Matter.”
But yo, these ain’t just pretty faces in the crowd, b. Real shit is actually happening. Peter Parker Spidey Sense is Finally in the Muthafuckin Building! Vision Getting Ran for His Jewels Doe?!?! Thanos just dropping stones in the gauntlet like they Pandora charms or some shit. Bucky Barns with two arms, lock and loading on the battlefield? Loki doing what Loki does and handing off the cube (to Thanos probably). But wait. WAIT.
“GET THIS MAN HIS SHEILD” – T’Challa Da Ruler
When the king speaks, you better listen to that shit! Here come Steve Rogers, lookin’ like he been working on a construction rig for the last year or so. Your boy lookin’ like he been in witness protection or whatever folks probably classified as domestic terrorists look like that been hiding out from the government. This shit too raw man.
I can’t take it. Actually nah, I’m here for ALL OF IT. And the kiss goodnight on this shit? Is that Okoye in the Vanguard? Is that her running with the Avengers up in this muthafucka?!?! AAAAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH. Bast, deliver me.
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