Kumail Nanjiani wants to break 'the tyranny of the positive portrayal' with Welcome To Chippendales role
. “I just didn’t feel ready. I didn’t know a way into playing a character like that. So I said no.”
He had another reason for shying away: “When I first said no, I was like, I don’t want to play a bad guy who’s brown in this climate. But the tyranny of the positive portrayal is just as reductive as the stereotype. I hear from people saying that I need to put up a pure, noble front. That’s not interesting to me.”“In the beginning, when I was auditioning, it genuinely was taxi drivers, people, Dunkin’ Donuts, Subway. … Either we’re nerds, or we’re planning to blow something up,” he says.
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