Work in Progress with Sophia Bush
Sep 9, 2026 · 1 hr 14 min · 34 segments
From "Never Have I Ever" to HBO’s thrilling new series "Lanterns," Poorna Jagannathan has built a career playing complicated women who refuse easy labels. She opens up about reinventing herself in…
Sophia BushHost
Poorna JagannathanGuest
I think something I've always really appreciated about you is you're another person who really loves acting and activism.
You do really powerful things with your voice, and I mean, I, I even think about, you know, you had your firm until 2016, but you produced ... your award-winning play in 2012.
Where, um, women and men said, "Enough is enough." You know, there was a young girl, Jyoti Singh Pandey, was 23, was brutally gang raped, uh, on her way home.
She, you know, she, she succumbed to her injuries, uh, 'cause she was...
And usually there's something or the other that people will find, right? It was late at night.
She didn't, like, what was going on, but this was just a girl who was a medical student who went to see Life of Pi and got onto a bus to go home, and it was a trap, you know? And, you know, the brutality of it also is, is...
The, the, the closest thing I can think of is the Black Lives Matter movement around George Floyd and the-
... there's something about the brutality of it and the fact that you can s- you can viscerally feel it-
I think something I've always really appreciated about you is you're another person who really loves acting and activism.
You do really powerful things with your voice, and I mean, I, I even think about, you know, you had your firm until 2016, but you produced ... your award-winning play in 2012.
Where, um, women and men said, "Enough is enough." You know, there was a young girl, Jyoti Singh Pandey, was 23, was brutally gang raped, uh, on her way home.
She, you know, she, she succumbed to her injuries, uh, 'cause she was...
And usually there's something or the other that people will find, right? It was late at night.
She didn't, like, what was going on, but this was just a girl who was a medical student who went to see Life of Pi and got onto a bus to go home, and it was a trap, you know? And, you know, the brutality of it also is, is...
The, the, the closest thing I can think of is the Black Lives Matter movement around George Floyd and the-
... there's something about the brutality of it and the fact that you can s- you can viscerally feel it-
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