Rushi Kota Shot Hallmark’s ‘Make Me a Match’ Days After Son’s Birth

Rushi Kota made his Hallmark Channel debut days after he landed the position of a lifetime and have become a first-time father.

The Make Me a Match star, 36, solely advised Us Weekly on Wednesday, June 28, that he didn’t navigate fatherhood “well at all” whereas on set in Canada for the Hallmark film earlier this yr.

“To make a stressful situation even more stressful, my wife’s due date was the same day as my first day of shooting,” Kota defined, noting that the couple’s resolution to induce labor a week early didn’t go as deliberate.

Following a hospital cancellation for his or her elective process, Kota advised Us he and his spouse, Reeshelle, tried “everything” to naturally pace up labor.

“Miraculously, he must have heard us because my wife’s water broke the next day and he was born after a smooth delivery,” Kota recalled of his son’s March arrival. “I just remember working on my character and memorizing lines in between changing diapers and no sleep.”

Kota revealed that it was “tough being away from [his] newborn son” whereas on set days later, however famous, “I’m proud of the movie and can’t wait to watch it with him when he’s older.”

Now that his son is three months outdated, Kota confessed to Us he’s nonetheless “unequivocally unequipped to be a father,” regardless of listening to parenting podcasts and studying up on the topic.

“I might as well have done nothing to prepare for fatherhood and I would still be in the same place as I started,” he joked. “Luckily my wife is a freaking genius, and she knows exactly what to do, and she teaches me along the way while I flail around like fish out of water.”

Although parenting hasn’t come simply, Kota felt comfortable together with his position as Boom in Hallmark’s Make Me a Match, which premiered on Saturday, June 24.

“What drew me to the role of Boom in Make Me A Match was that I’d be playing the first South Asian leading man in a Hallmark movie,” he advised Us. “It’s ironic that he’s a noncommittal serial dater, yet it’s his literal job to find people life partners through the family matchmaking business.”

The rom-com follows Vivi (Eva Bourne) as she learns about Indian matchmaking for her firm’s courting app whereas unwillingly changing into the topic of a setup with the matchmaker’s son, Boom (Kota).

“For me, balancing ‘modern romance’ and ‘Indian matchmaking’ was pretty easy because the two are more similar than people realize. While South Asian culture may be associated with arranged marriages, Indian matchmaking is not necessarily that anymore,” Kota, who’s Indian American, defined. “Matchmaking has evolved. Just like modern dating [like dating apps], clients are matched based on characteristics like shared interests, physical attraction, age, location.”

The Never Have I Ever actor advised Us that {couples} who use matchmakers “may progress faster to marriage because things like astrological alignment and the vetting process between the families happens upfront.”

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Kota added: “What the movie does well is highlight how traditional matchmaking can be modernized and made accessible to everyone.”