For nearly all of 2017, Kumail Nanjiani has been promoting The Big Sick, the semi-autobiographical romantic comedy about a standup comedian who, against his Pakistani family's wishes, falls in love with a white girl, who then falls into a coma. First, for the movie’s premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January, and then in March, for a showing at South by Southwest, where it won Festival Favorite. He was at it again for the film's theatrical rollout this summer, and now Nanjiani is once again tasked to spread the gospel of The Big Sick.
"We had three or four weeks off in the middle, and now it's back," he tells Et late in the day on a Friday in November, during yet another press junket. "But this is the gearing up of this next round which we didn't know was coming. But honestly, we are thrilled for the reason that it's coming, which is that we're...
"We had three or four weeks off in the middle, and now it's back," he tells Et late in the day on a Friday in November, during yet another press junket. "But this is the gearing up of this next round which we didn't know was coming. But honestly, we are thrilled for the reason that it's coming, which is that we're...
- 12/14/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
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