Posted on 07/07/2009 1:31:38 AM PDT by Schnucki
* Kal Penn starts new job at White House
* Is happy to take break from Hollywood
* Television news: Updates, guides, what's on
ACTOR Kal Penn has formally started work at the White House, saying he is happy to take a break from Hollywood to serve in President Barack Obama's administration.
"This is an incredibly historic time; I'm deeply honoured to be here and I hope to serve my country to the best of my ability," the actor, whose given name is Kalpen Modi, said.
Penn revealed in early April that his character Dr Lawrence Kutner on the smash hit House, MD committed suicide so that the actor could leave the show and take a job with the White House.
Penn said his first day in the White House Office of Public Engagement was like a lot of other people's first days on the job, citing "a lot of paperwork", introductory meetings and getting his email set up.
Asked what he did to prepare, the actor laughed and replied: "You're going to be bored by this. I brushed my teeth, I did floss, used mouthwash, you know, took the bus to work, same thing as everybody does."
Penn, who is of Gujarati Indian heritage, is the office's point person for Americans in the arts and the Asian-American and Pacific Islander communities.
He said those groups were "incredibly involved" in US politics, "especially this last election cycle" and underlined that they were "not just relegated to just ethnic politics".
Penn said he had had "a lot of fun" making the Harold and Kumar movies, in which he plays a marijuana-addled slacker, but that he was taking "a sabbatical from acting".
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Well, well, a virtual suicide.
This pantload played a convincing terrorist on ‘24’ a few years ago.
Very convincing.
Another gay on Obama’s staff in addition to his ‘body man’, Reggie Love.
I must say was ticked off when his character committed suicide.....until I heard what his next gig was.
Yeah, suicide was quite fitting.
Since he played a doctor on tv, he can be TOTUS’ point man for health care reform. Since he played a terrorist on tv...
Yeah and he resented it, calling it racial profiling.
See? People are practically KILLING THEMSELVES to get into this administration!
http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0671980/
Personal Quotes
[in New York Magazine, commenting about his recurring role as a terrorist on TV’s “24” (2001)] I have a huge political problem with the role. It was essentially accepting a form of racial profiling. I think it’s repulsive. But it was the first time I had a chance to blow stuff up and take a family hostage. As an actor, why shouldn’t I have that opportunity? Because I’m brown and I should be scared about the connection between media images and people’s thought processes?
What a dope. Hopefully he will see the light and realize what crooks these guys in the WH are.
But he didn't have a problem with American GIs "raping" prisioners in his Gitmo movie?
“This is an incredibly historic time as was the burning of Rome.
First job today: the Preident is gonna send him out to White Castle for burgers and doobage.
Exactly: It is a historic time. It is the destruction of America from the inside , just as predicted.
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