From ‘Jessie’ to Leading Man: The Evolution of Karan Brar

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Jessie and Bunk’d, and in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid movies, approaches just about everything in his life.“I had gotten a theater audition last year and my agent was just like, ‘I don’t know if this piece is what you’re going to be into,'” Brar says during a lively video call. “And I ended up loving the piece, but there was some miscommunication, dah, dah, dah, dah.

I didn’t get to audition for it, and I was like, ‘Whatever. I’ll be in New York top of the year, maybe something will happen.'”Having worked practically nonstop in film and television as a kid in Los Angeles, Brar, now 25, recently switched coasts, intent on tackling the stage.“I go to New York, and I decide to meet with theater agents there, and I was like, ‘Hey, look, I understand every film and television actor is coming to you right now and being like, Put me in theater.

Put me somewhere, because there’s no film and television jobs. If there’s a reading, if there’s something I can do, just let me know.

I understand these things take time to build.'”A couple weeks later, the actor, with dozens of credits for his work onscreen and voicing animated characters, booked the audition for what would become his theatrical debut, in Matthew Libby’s chilling new techno-thriller Data at Arena Stage.In the world-premiere production, Brar leads the four-person ensemble as Maneesh, a programmer at a data-mining firm who is enlisted for an insidious project.