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Actor Kal Penn is trading Hollywood for politics, taking a job with the White House doing outreach to Asian-Americans and the arts community. The Indian-American, whose given name is Kalpenn Modi, said Tuesday he would be joining President Obama’s administration and will not take any acting gigs while he holds the full-time position. The actor announced his new role in an interview with Entertainment Weekly magazine, timed as his character on Fox’s “House” left the show. “I thought this might be the right time to go off and do something else,” he told EW, adding that he told his bosses on the show that “there’s something aching in me to do something completely different and take a break from the acting thing for a while.” Mr. Penn is best known for playing Kumar in the comedy “Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle” and its sequel, “Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay.” But Mr. Penn, 31, also was one of the most reliable surrogates for the Obama campaign since the beginning. Campa
Actor Kal Penn is trading Hollywood for politics, taking a job with the White House doing outreach to Asian-Americans and the arts community. The Indian-American, whose given name is Kalpenn Modi, said Tuesday he would be joining President Obama’s administration and will not take any acting gigs while he holds the full-time position. The actor announced his new role in an interview with Entertainment Weekly magazine, timed as his character on Fox’s “House” left the show. “I thought this might be the right time to go off and do something else,” he told EW, adding that he told his bosses on the show that “there’s something aching in me to do something completely different and take a break from the acting thing for a while.” Mr. Penn is best known for playing Kumar in the comedy “Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle” and its sequel, “Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay.” But Mr. Penn, 31, also was one of the most reliable surrogates for the Obama campaign since the beginning. Campa
