Kumail Nanjiani
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And I have learned like there's a movie I want to direct.
No, I've never directed before.
And I'm really having the strong feeling where I'm like this movie.
I know this movie.
I feel like at this point in time, I didn't write it.
Emily and I rewrote it.
But I know at this point, there is no one in the world who knows this movie better than I do.
There's truly nobody in the world.
And that is a great feeling that happens when you're playing a character, too, where you're like, I know this character better than anybody else in the world.
And being able to even articulate that, I think it took me a long time to be able to say that.
And even now, I feel like you clocked.
I feel a little weird saying it.
So I started taking acting classes because I knew I wanted to make the big sick.
And actually, I started getting acting classes because there was a specific scene in Silicon Valley where I was like, oh, I don't have access to this.
There's a thing happening here that I need to do.
And what it was, was
I think it's the end of season two or three.
It's really great where we're at the house and Thomas Richard is outside doing a court case.
It's intercutting back and forth.
And each time it comes back to us, we're a little more freaked out.