Kumail Nanjiani says he had reservations about playing Chippendales founder Somen 'Steve' Banerjee, who was charged with attempted murder. 'I didn't know whether me playing an Indian immigrant who's such a bad guy was the right thing to do,' he says.
When I'd seen stand-ups doing impressions in Pakistan, I was like, 'Oh, I can't do that. I don't know how to do impressions.' But suddenly I saw a normal guy in a normal voice on stage telling jokes and being paid for it. I was like, 'OK, I think I could do that. If stand-up is also that, then maybe I could do it.' It really, really crawled up my spine. It was earth shattering for me.
This guy didn't have any of the things that I consider to be my strengths as a performer, you know? So it was really scary. I didn't know how to take those things out of my instincts. And if I'm shutting down such a big part of my personality, what's left? I was scared that people would not want to watch me as someone who doesn't have that in him, because maybe me without that isn't compelling.
So to me, that was such an important part of the story that he be completely different from all these people around him. ... You have all these men, including Nick De Noia, Murray Bartlett's character, the choreographer, all very fluid. They're all very in touch with their bodies ... very comfortable in their skin. They're good at moving. They're OK being shirtless. And I wanted this character to be created in contrast to that. So he does not like how he looks.
I can walk down the street and someone will just come up to me and say something about my body. That still happens all the time. ... I think I understand like .00001% of what women have been going through their entire lives.It felt, for a brief moment, powerful. And then after that, it was by and large negative. In the beginning, having that reaction from people – I'd never had that reaction before and I think part of me had always wanted it — it felt powerful. It felt really exciting.
I think I understand like .00001% of what women have been going through their entire lives. The big difference, of course, is that I don't feel scared walking alone in a parking lot at night — you know, that power differential isn't there. I feel like sometimes with women, men catcalling them or something feels a little bit like taking ownership of something that's not theirs. Men are sort of, in a way, taking power away from women in that moment. I don't have that.
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