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The cast of the NBC show
Connecting . . . shot their parts on iPhones from their actual homes, peppered with a few props. The laundry room in the show is actor Parvesh Cheena's actual laundry room. The pink kettle in the kitchen is the actual kettle he bought on Amazon. He refers to the downstairs of his townhome as the "set," and his bedroom upstairs has served as his dressing room. His partner, Eric, even had a small cameo in the show as a delivery person.
His character Pradeep is, mostly, a reflection of Cheena's real life. "Right now, I am enjoying the fact that people can just be who they are. And we don't have to talk about how spicy my dosa is or something," he says. "This is also the closest character to my real life—except I don't have children."