“Indian productions aren’t as caring about studies. He also credits Netflix with helping him keep up with his studies – the streaming services bears the expenses of a teacher for any minor it hires. He did most of the lines for me so I could copy them and deliver them properly on the final day,” he says. “Chris would teach me what his acting teacher taught him – dialogue delivery, voice modulation, the significance of pauses. After he convinced his school authorities to let him take the exams in February the following year instead, he moved to Ahmedabad and began rehearsing, attending mock shoots and script reading sessions with Hemsworth and Hargraves every day. Jaiswal found out he had got the Extraction role with months to go for his board exams in October 2018. Now 16, he still finds the crowds, chaos and competitiveness of auditions daunting, but tries to view them as learning opportunities. It had been a three-year-long struggle,” he says. “I wanted a big break at that age because I was doing nothing from the age of 10 to 13. A slew of other advertisements followed and three years later, he got cast as Sahadeva in Mahabharat (2013), a part that required him to deliver lengthy monologues in Hindi as part of the audition process.
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At 10, however, he got a call asking him to audition for an advertisement with Virat Kohli. My mom didn’t know who Chris Hemsworth was initially but when I told her, she went nuts.”Īcting was never part of the plan for Jaiswal, a state-level swimmer who thought he’d pursue the sport full-time. “They didn’t tell my mom directly that I’d been selected, just asked if I was available on certain dates. The next round pitted him against four other children from Mumbai up for the part. He didn’t get the part, but a casting director who remembered him, called him in to try out for the part of a “dusky looking guy” for Extraction (then called Dhaka) a year later.
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How does a teenager with not much acting experience land a big Netflix movie across a major action star? Jaiswal credits it to an audition he gave for the series Selection Day in 2017. I missed you sir, after 8 months we are back for some action ??????? post shared by Rudhraksh Jaiswal on at 9:02pm PDT Hi guys so we are back for the shoot in Thailand, dammmmm we had a lot of fun, it was like a small reunion we recreated all the beautiful memories. You automatically feel more diligent because you don’t want to make mistakes while working with such a big person, you want to learn from him.” The two now text frequently, with Jaiswal asking for advice on acting, roles and workshops. “The first time I met him, his presence on set made the atmosphere immensely magical.
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Over a six-month-long shoot across Ahmedabad and Bangkok, Jaiswal says the two developed a close-knit relationship, documented on his Instagram account that features videos of them swimming, hitting the gym together and goofing off on set. Hargraves isn’t the only Avengers cast member part of the project – it stars Chris Hemsworth as a black-market mercenary hired to rescue the boy.
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That was very scary but he was okay,” says Jaiswal.
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Once, we were driving and he accidentally bumped into our car.
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Our movie is full of intense action scenes. He quickly learned that a typical day on a Avengers stuntman-turned-director’s set involved Hargraves strapping himself to the bonnet of a car and being driven around to capture shots. “I’m a crazy Avengers fan,” says Jaiswal, who plays the kidnapped son of an international crime lord in the film, which streams on April 24. When 16-year-old Rudhraksh Jaiswal was cast in Netflix thriller Extraction, he thought he recognised its director, Sam Hargrave, from a very different role: Captain America’s stunt double.