Kumail Nanjiani

I'm not going to survive this.

And so I made a conscious decision in 2019 before I went to shoot that movie.

I was like, I am going to have fun shooting this no matter what.

Joy is going to be my primary, is going to be the primary way I engage with my work for the next six months.

And just deciding that really worked.

I had a great time doing that movie.

Obviously, there's pressures and stress, but I didn't really feel that.

For me, I was like, I can't believe I get to do this.

It was really, really exciting.

And that changed my relationship to my work.

Since then, every single job I've had, I get excited to do it.

I do a lot of homework.

I prepare a lot.

I just did, you know, Oh Mary, we were talking about before we started recording.

It's a play on Broadway.

six years ago, seven years ago, I would not have been able to handle the pressure of that where you have to go out and nail every single night after night.

Yeah, but it really was, I mean, thank you for putting it that way.

It was self-defense.

It really was a survival thing.

I was like, I'm not going to come out of this grinder alive if I don't change how I approach it.