Actor Kubbra Sait’s birthday this year just got more special, for she is set to make her international debut with Foundation. The teaser of the show dropped some time ago, and people back home in India have been curious about her brief appearance in it.

“This is my first interview where I’m like, ‘Hell yeah, this girl has gone to Hollywood!’ Otherwise, I was talking about it with the same excitement in my intimate circle. When I saw myself in the teaser, I just went like, ‘I am here’,” gushes Sait, who turns 37 today.

While she can’t divulge much about her character at this point, Sait says the journey and experience of shooting for the show, also starring Jared Harris and Lee Pace, was like a ‘school of a lifetime’.

The actor elaborates, “It is incredible, when you get something based purely on merit, not entirely crediting it to luck. Of course, luck played a very small part in it, for my casting agent to recognise that I may be able to do it, the creators seeing a brown person from the East, and thinking I may be able to play a character on screen in the West. Every audition of mine was progressively good. I think that whole journey put together was excellent.”

The Sacred Games actor was in Ireland and Canary Islands for months to shoot for the show. While there has been disappointment in the past about roles of Indian actors not turning out to be substantial enough despite the hype, she assures that one won’t be disappointed. “If you ask me do I have lines, I have loads. If that is what defines it, then yes, I have lines,” she adds.

As for her birthday, Sait says she has always been very excited for the day, and would count down from a month in advance. But, this time around, she’s a bit in control.

“I will have a really intimate brunch with my brother, coming from Bangalore along with his wife, and friends. Then, we’re going bowling in a new arcade that has opened in Bandra, Mumbai. I’ve not done that in 10 years. That’s what is fun; it isn’t defined by age or numbers,” she signs off.