Kumail Nanjiani

So my love, I genuinely love cricket, but that wasn't, like my mom loves cricket too, you know.

Not as much as I do, but she really loves cricket.

She cares.

So I think it was being a man was a big thing.

And that came from knowing that naturally I did not have the signifiers of a manliness.

So changing my walk, even now I know, like I see people making fun of the way I speak, not because of my accent, but because...

the thing is the feminine, whatever.

I actually did a show with Nick Kroll last week.

We were both on stage together and he was like, what VHSs did you have as a kid?

And the first four that came to mind were Gremlins 2, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Sound of Music and Mary Poppins.

And he was like, I always felt like you carry like the masculine and feminine together.

And I was like, oh, I'll take that as a compliment because for so many years I tried to deny that.

I mean, I've watched Sound of Music and Mary Poppins

more than most human adults.

I've watched it over and over.

Yeah, being a superhero on a Marvel set truly was, like, to me, the pinnacle.

And I decided a few years ago I did that movie.

Before I did that movie, I was like, I want to play a superhero.

Why not?

Why not me?