Kumail Nanjiani

And it's a little scary because the first couple months you're like, what if I don't figure out what he is?

And then for me, there's always an image or something that suddenly I'm like, okay, I understand what this is now.

But getting to that image takes a while for me.

But yeah, but I think it's also trusting myself to be able to do a performance like that because he's so different from me.

He walks so differently, he talks so differently.

That's the other thing is realizing like,

In certain ways, it's even hard to say, I do know what I'm talking about.

I feel confident enough to be like, hey, this thing, I think it should be like this.

So just like yesterday, I had a conversation with the director for a movie I want to do.

And I was like, I love this script.

Here's some things about this specific character that I think I would like to do.

And

And and just being able to, like, have that confidence to be like, this is a great script.

The writer is phenomenal.

I know what I want is hard for me to say, and also that I know what I want is going to make the movie better.

I know that if you listen to this, you don't have to listen to all of it, but if we can find a way to make this work, I think the movie's gonna be better.

It is.

It sounds arrogant.

It sounds, you know, it sounds like who I'm like, who am I to say these people obviously know what they're doing.

Yeah, I really have.