Kumail Nanjiani

I don't feel like there was ever a decision to like, there have been decisions within that, like writing The Big Sick with Emily and acting in it was like, I was like, I want to tell this story and I want to be vulnerable in that kind of way.

But everything else has just sort of been like tiny little things.

Yeah, and there's some stuff in that that we didn't give to people.

And Emily was actually very smart about that because I was like, put everything down.

And Emily was like, no, some things are just ours.

And Emily changed her family's last name in the movie.

I did not, which I do regret.

I think that was stupid.

I do not regret doing the Big Sick.

There are things within it that I would do differently, but I'm very proud of what we made with that.

I do not regret it.

Right.

And at least if you're giving stuff to people that

Hide it, you know, like write it into a zombie movie or something so that there's like a little bit more distance.

That felt like uniquely naked.

You know, it felt like I had no safety net with that movie.

And I do like doing that, operating without a safety net, but this is, for instance, I realized the importance of a safety net even within acting.

In Chippendales, I was doing a scene that was emotionally very challenging, and so I was using a personal memory to do it.

And I did it, you know, the reality of acting as you're doing it like 30, 40 times.

But halfway through, I was like, I was exhausted.