Episode 157: Praneet Akilla

The YVR Screen Scene Podcast · Apr 13, 2021 · 1h 44m

Praneet Akilla walked away from an engineering career in Alberta in order to make it as an actor. Since arriving in Vancouver in 2018, he’s lit up the screen in numerous projects, including FREYA, Rhona Rees’ award-winning sci-fi short about the dangers of AI technology; Netflix’s October Faction, where he played closeted jock Phillip Mishra; and CW’s Nancy Drew, where he plays Gil Bobbsey, one half of the iconic Bobbsey Twins (the half that went all the way with Nancy Drew in a recent episode). He’s also a producer on, and an actor in, Mom vs. Machine, in which a mother must compete for her…