People get offended by everything: '2 Broke Girls' star Jonathan Kite

If you’re a 2 Broke Girls fan, you’re obviously familiar with or a fan of Oleg Golishevsky, the unabashedly, unapologetically  filthy Ukrainian chef at the diner Max Black (Kat Dennings) and Caroline Channing (Beth Behrs) work at. For five seasons, he’s been consistently funny and that’s the track record he expects to carry into Season 6 of the show, which premiered yesterday night and will be aired every Saturday at 10 pm on Star World and Star World HD.

In the new season, Oleg is already married and expecting a baby with Sophie Kachinsky (Jennifer Coolidge, also a veteran of the show). Jonathan Kite, who plays Olegm, talks to us about the show, his character, the brickbats and bouquets he gets and about how as an impressionist, he met and surprised Vince Vaughn. And how he dined with our very own Frieda Pinto. For more, read on...

What has been the most fun part about playing Oleg? And who have you based him on?

I did not base him on any one that I like. My favourite part about him is I like that he really toes the line, he doesn’t push the envelope too much. It’s really raw humour, but it is made in such a clever way, I like when the jokes are very suggestive or they don’t say it right out you know, when there is a clever way to say it.

And who is your favourite Broke Girl?

Sophie!

Oh! Okay. But Sophie is the one with the money, right? Not really a broke girl in the right sense of the term, is she?

Well, this season, the girls had a lot more money because they helped buy the diner, so they’re doing a little better, too.

And is Oleg’s relationship with Sophie for keeps? I mean you did get married, so…

I hope so, yeah! I think so, I mean we are going to have that baby.

And considering that the show just got here, what can viewers and fans expect from Season 6?

I think the baby is going to be a really huge part of it. Also, I think that it is going to be exciting because the girls are now part owners of the diner for Season 6 and so that is going to be very interesting because we have never seen that before.

Five seasons down, what has been the one episode on the show featuring you that you have enjoyed the most?

The one where the girls came and fixed my apartment, you know the one when they tried, when I said I need to change myself just for Sophie and then they switched it around because I thought it was a very interesting look.

What did they re-design it to?

It was all beige, it looked like an old woman lived there and so it’s not… you know, it is not Oleg and it was great because Sophie said, ‘That’s not why I like you... I like you for this reason’, etc, but it was very interesting to see how he lives because you know, Oleg is such a mysterious character we don’t always get to see the type of stuff he has in his house, but you know that was a really cool experience. Where someone lives, how they arrange their stuff, I think, says a lot about them.

And are you aware of Indian actors like Priyanka Chopra and Frieda Pinto for that matter?

Yes. You know what, I had dinner with Frieda, we sat across from each other, and we met each other only very briefly, but I’m familiar with her.

Ever get hate mail from the Ukraine?

No, the people in the Ukraine, they love Oleg. I think a lot of Ukrainian people really seem to like the character a lot. A lot of people do get offended by insulting him on the show. Do you think that is something the show is necessarily going to thrive on and continue doing over the next two seasons? I think you know people get offended by everything, when it coming to be offended, you are always going to have people like that and that’s okay if we have our audience and the fans are so great and so loyal to the show. We are going to keep doing our thing.

You are a known impressionist. Which one do you get asked to do the most. And has a celebrity ever called you after one?

I get asked to do outgoing President Barack Obama a lot. I took a hint that people don’t expect me to do it. And  actor Vince Vaughn called, you know Vince Vaughn?

Of course, I know Vince Vaughn, tell me.

I do an impression of Vince and I met him once. He was really nice about it, but it was weird because he was not expecting it at all, his friends asked me if I would do the impression for him and I think he was very surprised when he saw it.