Stuber: Kumail Nanjiani's new action-movie is fast, furious, and socially-conscious
had a full-circle moment at SXSW earlier this year. The first time he came to Austin for a splashy premiere, he was the fourth lead oncomedy premiering on HBO that April. Five years, several Emmy nominations for outstanding comedy, and one Academy Award nomination for best screenplay later, Nanjiani was back, and as the lead this time—premiering his studio action-comedy,character, Dinesh Chugtai, is the reason Nanjiani broke out of his lane as a beloved fixture of the L.A.
“Guns are a very real topic of conversation in our society,” Nanjiani points out. “I felt like if you have a movie with a lot of guns, you have to say something about guns.” That “something” comes in the form of some very Nanjiani-esque quips tossed off between hails of bullets. The other lethal weapon in the film is Bautista’s Vic, who is, in many ways, the hulking, shouting, exasperated cop stereotype we’ve seen many times. But Bautista, a former wrestler of Greek and Filipino descent, is as committed as Najiani to breaking out of the roles he’s expected to play. When he was promoting his role in: “Getting people to look past this…I realize that there’s only so much I can pull off when I look like this; I’m built like this.
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