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Hank Azaria

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1859 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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And that's about the way it, somebody even did a study on that.

I'm like, those are real kind of real numbers.

Because we all started looking into this.

So to the extent, though, that that was true in the fact that I didn't.

I mean, you know, I remember the movie I did, Mystery Men, with Ben Stiller, who we were talking about earlier.

Well, I'm the blue doll, Sean.

The directors really suggested that I play that in brownface and Indian accent, and I didn't say no because I anticipated Apu difficulties.

I was like, nah, I just don't think that's going to be the funniest thing or the best thing we can do here.

But so the character was my homage to Peter Sellers from The Party.

And I'm actually imitating โ€“ I'm not even imitating an Indian person authentically.

I'm imitating Peter Sellers' over-the-top voice from the party.

So when Hari Kondabalu made the joke that I sounded like a white guy imitating another white guy trying to make fun of his dad, he was spot on.