Dax Shepard

But because if it's people who are part of a marginalized community, it sometimes can be seen as, oh, this is a political thing because we don't have any choice for it to be anything other than that.

But the interesting thing about Thanksgiving episodes, like so many straight white dudes come up to me and tell me how much they love it.

Oh, I love it.

And that was a breakthrough for me because I used to think of it as the black episode of Master of None.

Oh, interesting.

Oh, we're going to have a black episode of these?

Oh, cool.

Oh, yeah.

A gay black episode.

Yeah, yeah.

And I just thought it was for the gay black folk.

Gay black folk love the Thanksgiving episode.

But that's the thing.

Yeah, yeah.

That's the trick.

Yes.

Is that, yes, it's specific, but it's also universal.

Oh, absolutely.

But for me as an artist, my goal is to not separate myself from the things that make me who I am, but to get folks who don't look like me, love like me, come from the walk of life that I do, to be able to look at the work and not only see it through a particular lens.

It's to say, hey, you can see yourself in this character.