Found a bunch of old scripts from some of my first years trying to be an actor. pic.twitter.com/GydOwlUKGW



— Kal Penn (@kalpenn) March 14, 2017

Jeez I remember this one! They were awful. "Can you make his accent a little more AUTHENTIC?" That usually meant they wanted Apu pic.twitter.com/3F5XRORO3n



— Kal Penn (@kalpenn) March 14, 2017

This was a pilot called The Stones. Tried to convince them to let me speak without an accent & make it funny on the merits (was told no) ?? pic.twitter.com/SuUVYT7rip



— Kal Penn (@kalpenn) March 14, 2017

Friggin King of Queens man! I used to love that show until I got to audition for it lol pic.twitter.com/2BYu0nnd57



— Kal Penn (@kalpenn) March 14, 2017

Ha! In this audition for Smart Guy, they didn't even give the character a name! pic.twitter.com/z2D8E5rx8J



— Kal Penn (@kalpenn) March 14, 2017

Whoa I remember this! This was one of my first commercials. The makeup people would use Vaseline to get the sweaty unwashed look going pic.twitter.com/X7z4EI4drQ



— Kal Penn (@kalpenn) March 14, 2017

Sabrina the Teenage Witch! Man. We got INTO it about why he had to have an accent. I'm laughing about it now but they were such dicks ?? pic.twitter.com/kXdHjVsqvT



— Kal Penn (@kalpenn) March 14, 2017

There are too many in this stack to tweet, I'll be here all day. That said, there were also some wonderful 1st audition & work experiences!



— Kal Penn (@kalpenn) March 14, 2017

Stuff like Steve Harvey, Buffy, Angel, 24, really smart, creative people who didn't have to use external things to mask subpar writing



— Kal Penn (@kalpenn) March 14, 2017

Also when you cast things like @shorez, largely color & gender blind, it's more interesting & ratings can look like this. Which is awesome! pic.twitter.com/qr1f7vWASK



— Kal Penn (@kalpenn) March 14, 2017

Anyway getting off my soapbox & going to work. New Designated Survivor this week! Thanks for the love over the years 👍🏽😍😜



— Kal Penn (@kalpenn) March 14, 2017

NEW DELHI: In a series of tweets that get progressively more blistering, Hollywood star of Indian origin, Kal Penn , this week slammed "racist and stereotypical" Hollywood for reducing Indian characters in movies to cheap caricatures.The former White House associate director of public engagement in Barack Obama 's first administration recently found some old scripts from when he was trying to break into Hollywood. He tweeted relevant portions of these scripts with one scathing comment after another.Probably the one thing Penn got asked to do a lot - a lot - is to make his accent "a little more authentic." By this, he said, they usually meant speak like the character 'Apu' from the The Simpsons or do a Peter Sellers rendition.Odd, when you think about it, because Penn - his given name is Kalpen Suresh Modi - is as American as apple pie. His Wikipedia page says he was born and brought up in New Jersey. And most times he was asked to put on an exaggerated Indian accent, it was only for comedic effect.Sometimes, the Indian character Penn would audition for was present in the script just so his name could be made fun of.At other times, the Indian characters would be the stereotypical "smart guy".Some characters were beyond offensive - not even by implication, but in the script.In hindsight, Penn said, he can laugh about it. A bit.There were a few redeeming character-driven TV shows and films, concluded the star of TV show House, the Harold and Kumar movies and the film, The Namesake.Penn names some of the directors and shows that didn't use Indian actors just to insert "funny" accents or names.Rant over, the actor said he was going off to work to the sets of his ABC show ' Designated Survivor '. To be sure, Kal Penn is a bonafide one.