Kumail Nanjiani

As Emily says, the call is coming from inside the house.

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