Kumail Nanjiani

But Eternals changed my relationship to my work in that way.

So I just, you know, found out I'm going to be acting in something in a couple of months early next year, and I cannot wait to get started now.

In other situations, I would have been like, I know I have a lot of work to do, a lot of prep to do.

between now and then the other time it would be like, Oh my God, I can't wait for this to be over.

And now I can't wait for it to start.

I'm so excited to do it.

It's really and it really does come from the looseness of stand up.

You know, I always felt like

When you're on stage, I know there's like a neurological thing that happens.

It's called a flow state.

It's like a real thing.

It's the zone, right.

Quick.

Yeah.

And I feel really lucky in that when I record...

recorded that special, I recorded it at the exact right moment where I felt very confident in every single part of it, but I wasn't sick of it yet.

I hadn't gone into the rote, because that happens with standup.

You do it a lot and then suddenly you're like, before I was like recording specials when I was just doing standup to like crowds and it was disappearing, that was my gauge for a bit is done was when like, oh, they're not laughing anymore because it's rote.

i never got to that point with any of the material i did on stage because i generally i did that special really quickly like um from you know deciding i want to start stand up again eight year you know hadn't done it in eight years from that to recording the special was a year and a half which is very quick from like no material having not done any stand up to um recording it yeah was that scary too or were you excited about that

No, but I can talk about it, how it related to my stand-up specifically.