Amrit Kaur Reveals theSex Lives of College GirlsScene That Reneé Rapp and Alyah Chanelle Scott 'Couldn't Stop Laughing' At (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Amrit Kaur’s character onThe Sex Lives of College Girlsmight have the show’s funniest one-liners, but the actress herself is pretty good at keeping a straight face — until her costars break, that is.

“I actually don’t break that much. I break more when other people break, so when I’m saying something, and someone’s laughing, and then I’m like [laughing],” Kaur, who plays Bela Malholtra, says, before sharing a scene from season 3 that was particularly hard to get through.

In the season premiere, Bela, Leighton (Rapp) and Whitney (Scott) are having lunch together when Leighton declines a call from her girlfriend Alicia (Midori Francis). Bela asks if the move is a way of “asserting your alpha-dom-femme-top energy? Making sure she knows you’re ‘mother’?”

“Bela! Stop using gay slang,” Leighton tells her.

Amrit Kaur, Reneé Rapp in ‘The Sex Lives of College Girls’ season 3.Tina Thorpe/Max

Tina Thorpe/Max

Recalling the scene about “gay slang,” Kaur says, “We had to do that so many times because Reneé and Alyah couldn’t stop laughing.

“I love making people laugh, I’m like, ‘Yay, I’m hitting a note,’ but that one was a difficult one [to get through].”

“When I open the script, I immediately get reminded of what’s further in Bela than in me,” the actress says as she reflects on the “characteristics of Bela that are heightened” compared to her.

“The constantly trying to make people laugh, the transgressions, the boldness, the fearlessness, all [of that] I have, but Bela has that at tenfold.”

Amrit Kaur, Alyah Chanelle Scott in ‘The Sex Lives of College Girls’ season 3.Tina Thorpe/Max

Kaur also sees pieces of herself in Bela’s season 3 storyline, which sees her “trying to make up for past mistakes.”

“She had so much freedom and she just left home, and so she thought the world was her oyster,” Kaur says of the character in seasons 1 and 2, who had an “I don’t care about anybody else” mindset.

“And now she’s dealing with the ramifications,” she says. “She’s going through this process of consciousness and learning who she actually is — what she believes in, who she is in her bones.”

Amrit Kaur in ‘The Sex Lives of College Girls’.Tina Thorpe/Max

Coming back for season 3 was “humbling,” Kaur says.

“To be a lead on a series and to be in that unique position is fantastic. It’s such an honor,” she says. “And there’s a rhythm after season 3, there’s a rhythm with everything. So it’s a great privilege. I’m so thankful.”

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The season 3 premiere ofThe Sex Lives of College Girlsis now streaming on Max, and new episodes air weekly on Thursdays.

source: people.com