The Sun participated in a conference call with Dilshad Vadsaria (right), who plays senator’s daughter and all-around troublemaker Rebecca Logan on the ABC Family original series Greek. The show’s third season premiered on Monday, and Assistant Daze Editor Cara Sprunk joined other student journalists last week to ask a few questions of the actress ...

How does it feel being a part of the cast of Greek? How has it changed your life?

Well, I moved to California without a job, and I was fortunate enough to get Greek right away but I put in a lot of time in New York training and learning how to audition and whatnot. So having Greek and being in a part of the cast of Greek, I get to go in and do something that I love everyday.

How did you prepare for the role of Rebecca Logan?

I did a lot of research on her. … In the beginning, to kind of start I looked at political [figures] and their daughters and what was out there in the media about them. The Bushes, that was a big one, and then there were other senators with their daughters that I looked into to just to sort of get me started, and then after that it kind of takes on a life of its own.

Does your Pakistani upbringing have any effect on your acting?

I don’t think necessarily that the upbringing itself had an effect, but I think more moving around a lot probably did. We never really tended to stay in any one place for a very long time. My father was just a nomad. So I felt like I could acclimate to a lot of different environments. From Pakistan to Chicago — I had never seen snow before! From Chicago to Richmond, where they had a snow day for two flakes of snow, and then to Philadelphia and to New York. So I just sort of became a chameleon and I think that problem had a bit of an effect on understanding the world around me. … Even though I moved around a lot in the States, every state is very different, people are different, the cultures different. So I became very sensitive to all of that.

How do you feel that your time at University of Delaware compares your character’s life at Cyprus-Rhodes?

It’s very different. [Laughs]. For example, myself, I worked to put myself through school and had to take out a lot of loans on top of that. So my character doesn’t have to worry about any of that and we don’t necessarily show our characters studying much because that’s not really entertainment to study all the time. There are factors of that in the storyline though, but I remember studying stuff like all the time and having labs on top of that and having two jobs on top of that. My life was very different in reality to what my character is on the show. She’s out there having more fun probably, fun in her own way, than I did.

Did you study acting in college?

I was actually pre-med, so I never studied acting until I went to New York and studied there. And then I came to L.A.

Is there a dream role you’d like to play?

For some reason, lately, I just want to do some sort of action. I keep pitching ideas to the writers and just talking out of my butt a little bit because that would never happen. [I keep saying] “Hey, how about putting Rebecca on a motorcycle?” and they’re like, “Hey, how bout not.” I want to do something that’s really like fierce and action and something with some movement and energy. I’m feeling really intense so I feel like I want a character that really shows that.

There’s some major drama in me.

Were you involved in Greek life at Delaware?

I did rush, but I didn’t end up actually pursuing it to the full effect of being in a sorority for life, for my entire college years. One, you have dues to pay so I didn’t think about that when I started, and working two jobs and paying [my way] through school and having to take out loans — maybe not the smartest thing, so that played a big factor in me not going through it. But rush was a lot of fun and it was a great experience. It was something that I’m really glad I did because there’s no other experience like that out there.

What was your perception of Greek life when you were at Delaware?

A lot of parties for the Greeks. But also I remember one of the sororities that really spoke to me. There was this really strong bond of sisterhood because they’d been through a lot. And that made the sorority so appealing to a lot of people I know because it just resonated with the sisters — you just knew that they had this unspoken bond. And so I knew that that was there. And you also have the bads in regard to hierarchy, class and money and all of those things also played through. […]

What have you learned about Greek life from being on this show?

There are so many things that I didn’t know about Greek life … the whole going up to a fraternity to have the pledges invite them for a mixer and the dance part I’m not quite sure about but that whole thing, that’s very traditional and to me, I never experienced anything like that where I went to school. So that was very new. There are a lot of traditional things that are coming up like a hasher — what’s a hasher? So things like that I’m learning. And there are other things that I was very familiar with already, like the lavaliering and what it is to pledge and what it is to rush. All the terms that people aren’t very familiar with, I was very familiar with that, but I think it’s more practices that have sort of sustained for decades, especially in the South, that I know that the creator of our show [Patrick Sean Smith] experienced, but I never experienced so I’m learning all of those things.

Any particular thing coming up in this season that people can really relate to?

Definitely [this season] tests new friendships, what you have morally linked by in your life that may come into question. They may be figuring out that not everything goes the way you think life should go and maybe ending a little bit for friends. I think that’s something that will come into play that people will be able to [relate to]. That’s one of the big, general big storylines.

Rebecca often has stories or plots based on scheming with other characters. Who do you find you have the most on screen chemistry with? Who’s the most fun to scheme with?

I think one of my favorites to scheme with is Calvin. Rebecca sort of just decided that Calvin is her friend […] So she sort of latches on to Calvin because he’s gay and in Rebecca’s mind that makes sense. I’ve had a lot of fun acting with him. He’s sort of become like a partner in crime in that sense.

What can we expect to see romantically with the other characters this season?

Every character in the ten [episodes] that are about to wrap this week, has gone through some sort of a romantic turmoil or high in this season. Whether it’s Dale and the landlady or Rusty with his girlfriend or Casey and Cappie and Ashley and my character, we’ve all sort of dabbled in it this season. There’s not going to be one episode, I think, where any character is without some sort of romantic conflict, which is interesting now that I think about it.

Do you think that Greek accurately portrays homosexuality and acceptance in Greek life on the show and in reality?

Well [Greek creator] Patrick Sean Smith is very, very sensitive to that because he is a part of the Gay, Lesbian, Transgender community and whatnot so they try to make it very very realistic. … I think that Calvin, who’s played by Paul James, he comes across that [prejudice by putting himself in certain situations], something that he may bring upon himself, but also things that he experiences in the house. So I think that it balances it out pretty realistically.

A lot of the main characters on the show are nearing graduation. Will the show continue without them or will they find a way to stay on?

I’m sure [Smith] has it figured out at this point, because we can’t lose some of these main characters, and I mean we’d lose over half our cast! … I think that they are going to be creating ways in which they keep some of these characters around. The show is Greek so it’s going to have to be within that realm. It’s a vague answer, because I don’t have specifics yet. I do know that when I did have a conversation with [Smith] a long time ago, there were already some ways that he was going to incorporate the characters and keep the storylines going. But realistically! Not like everyone’s a fifth year senior so in a creative way … we will not lose these characters! [Laughs].