Kumail Nanjiani

And I had little moment, like I had little previews of what that life could be like, even though I hadn't really lived it.

Sometimes when I was doing stand-up on stage, when I was really loose,

I could feel like I could riff and come up with stuff I could not come up with if I sat down and wrote.

So I understood that having no pressure, being completely in the moment, being completely loose and having fun was creatively good for me.

So I understood that that's the mind space I want to be in is letting that go, forgetting, turning certain parts of my brain off is when I'm best.

On the side of Silicon Valley, I planned stuff and whatever, but the stuff that happened just in the moment was the stuff I was like, that felt so much more alive than anything else.

So it was self-preservation, but also knowing that I was going to be, I'm at my best when I'm loose and enjoying myself.

Even doing something like Welcome to Chippendales, which is a very dark character, there was joy in doing that for me.

Yeah, a lot of work.

I mean, you know, when I shot The Big Sick, that was a very stressful experience.

I remember we were shooting the last scene of the movie and it was towards the end of the shoot.

And I mean, what a...

Emily and I talk about how we need another word for blessed that isn't like religiously loaded.

We need like a non-denominational blessed.

Because I say blessed, then suddenly it conjures images of religion.

That was such a blessed, non-denominationally blessed experience.

Like getting to work with those people, Zoe, Holly, Ray, Michael, Judd, Barry.

I mean, all these amazing people.

When I look back on it, the entire time I was just thinking, don't fuck this up, don't fuck this up, don't fuck this up.

Only Murders is later.