Lilly Singh says she's a 'disrupter' online, in books and on screen
Now, without her show and after an emotionally draining pandemic that left her with more spare time than ever to reassess her goals, she's charting another new course.
This year alone, she's joined the cast of the Hulu/Crave series “Dollface” and the upcoming book-to-screen animated film “The Bad Guys.” Sticking with her comedy roots, she'll also lead “The Muppets Mayhem,” a new Disney Plus series following the Electric Mayhem Band as they record an album, and is developing a comedy series for Netflix with “Black-ish” creator Kenya Barris. Oh, and she's also a judge on this season of Citytv's “Canada's Got Talent.
Singh shares how she's felt less like her “successful, happy, energetic” self since the COVID-19 pandemic began and her late-night show, NBC's “A Little Late with Lilly,” was cancelled. “Sometimes it was hard to even be honest with myself. I wanted to go there because I feel like that is the work that is required to get to the place I want to get to in life ... somewhere where I have a strong foundation and a clear direction of who I am, what I value, and what matters to me.”
“It's a cultural thing,” she says, alluding to her South Asian background, and a community that has long stigmatized mental health. “Now I fully embrace that. I think it's important for people to break the mould so that we can innovate not just in business but in the way we live our lives.”
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