Kumail Nanjiani on Refusing to Play Up His Accent for a Major Role: ‘I Don’t Regret It’

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Kumail Nanjiani on Refusing to Play Up His Accent for a Major Role: ‘I Don’t Regret It’
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Kumail Nanjiani admits that despite an upcoming starring role in Marvel’s “The Eternals” and an Academy Award nomination in 2017 for co-scripting “The Big Sick,” he still st…

” and an Academy Award nomination in 2017 for co-scripting “The Big Sick,” he still struggles with feeling successful in Hollywood. But he felt a modicum of success when he started auditioning for parts that weren’t what he calls “stereotypical brown guy roles” or ones that required playing up his accent, like he had been doing during his first few years of auditioning.

“So there was a really, really big movie, actually, that I auditioned for, and I was a taxi driver, and the director was like, ‘Hey, could you play up the accent a little bit?’ And I was like, ‘I’m sorry, I won’t.’ And then the guy felt really bad,” “The Lovebirds” star recalls. “And I was like, ‘No, it’s fine. I’m just not going to do it. If that’s what you want, I’m not your guy.’ And then that movie was hugely successful.”#REPRESENT: Success Stories' with Hasan Minhaj, Jon M.

In the superhero film, bowing in 2021, Nanjiani will be playing Kingo, a cosmic being and Bollywood star. Fitting, since he modeled his own fitness goals after Indian actor Hrithik Roshan.

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