 How are you? I'm fine. How are you both? Good. We're good. How's the now little toddler doing? Yeah, she's, it's so exciting this age, you know? She's like chatting, she's speaking three languages and she's just talking nonstop. And yeah, you have a kid, right? Yeah, you had a kid just a few months right after my wife gave birth to our, to our first as well. So we're all basically almost at the same stage. So it's a wonderful, crazy stage. It's wonderful though. Yeah, yeah, thank God it gets good. Yeah, because the first six months, like a truck hits you and you don't know what happened. Absolutely. Well, thank you so much for joining. We've been wanting to talk to you for a long, long time. Our channel originally started with Gully Boy. We were acted to the trailer and that's kind of how our channel almost took off because we were acted to the trailer. And so that was one of the first thing we saw you and then we saw you obviously in Margarito the Straw, Death and the Gun, Sacred Games, Made in Heaven, all these other things now waiting as well. But so we've been wanting to talk to you for a long time. And so I just wanted to ride off the bat, first ask, why acting? I don't know. Because like, how do you stay sane if you don't have somewhere to like get all your emotions out? I really, I mean, I'm joking, but I'm also like, I think acting is therapy. It's really an amazing way to kind of get in touch with everything that's going on inside. And the more we look at others, the better we get to know ourselves, I really believe. So yeah. What was it that caused you to, because I believe at one point, if I'm understanding correctly, your career pursuits were gonna possibly go into the realm of psychology. Is that right? Oh, no, that was just someone who asked me if I wasn't going to be an actor, what would I be? Oh, what would you be? Okay. And I had said criminal psychology, but yeah. Yeah, but no, it was always acting? No, I know. Yeah, I think I also don't know if I'm smart enough for criminal psychology. Academically a lot harder. And so as an actor, what is one of the first things when you were looking at presumptive scripts to do, what is one of the first things that you look for in a script as an actor? It's very instinctual, you know? I don't think there's one particular thing. If I read a script in one go, and it really grabs me and I have a lot of questions at the end and I start Googling the subject, that's, these are all good signs, you know? If I'm like checking my phone in between or I have to go get a cup of tea, then that's not such a good sign. It's really very, the first read is just very instinctual. Then there's all the other weighing options of, you know, have you done something like this before? How good is production, all of those things? Right, right, right. And I would assume that there's probably times where you would absolutely agree to be on a project simply because of who you know you're collaborating with, even though you don't particularly have the script in hand yet, or do you always wait and make sure you've seen the script first? I haven't had a situation where that's happened, but of course I've said to people like Vishal Varadaraj that I'll work with you, whatever you make it covered in the corner. So yeah, of course I think there are people that you would trust just because of their body of work, but I haven't had that happen. I have had that, we've completely revised and changed the script at the last minute. Sure. But yeah, always had something to read. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I saw in an interview that you said that you, somebody asked you if you had any regrets and you said some film choice. Obviously you didn't mention which films obviously. And you said sometimes you know by basically day two or three, if this film is gonna be shit or not. And so how do you knowing that at the time continue? Is it just because obviously you're a good professional and then how also do you when months later or years later when you have to do promotion for a film that you don't believe in, how hard is that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's hard to come up with an excuse why you can't be at the promotions, but then it's fine. Yeah, I mean, of course sometimes you just have to do it because you're in it, you've signed the contract and I mean, yeah, but yeah, there's really very little way of knowing sometimes especially with a new director and a new script, like a new production house, you just, you really don't know from just the script because it's such a collaborative process. There's so many people involved that you can have a quite fantastic script and still find yourself in a situation where no one has a clue what they're doing on set. And yeah. Yeah, yeah. And as a creative person, because I mean, everyone who knows you or takes a quick look at what you do recognizes that you are a creative, that it's not just acting in which that your artistry comes out, it comes out in writing, it comes out in directing, it comes out in spoken word things that you do, it comes out in activism that you do. How, now that you're also a mom, how challenging is it to balance all of those things or do you just find it easy because you go with the flow at whatever time is going on? Well, I think that I was really, I mean, the timing of having a baby and then going into lockdown was kind of perfect. I'm not that I'm talking about going through a pandemic, but it just gave us that time off. I agree, I agree. Babies and handle it and like not have to deal with these impossible choices whether you want to go to a child or go to work. I did write a book in that time though. I wrote a comic book on motherhood which kind of kept me again sane. It was almost like a therapy to just plow through everything that I was going through and put it into some form. So it kept me in touch with stuff. But yeah, I don't, I am definitely taking up less work now as a mom. I'm much more picky and I want to have gaps between, like before it was just back to back and now I want those gaps in between. But yeah, it's just another avatar. Like, you know, you take baby and writing and doing something else and learning, it's all learning. Yeah, my wife had ordered your book actually, before we even knew we were gonna be able to talk to you. She's been very excited about your book. She's wanted to read it for a long, long time and now that it was available in America, she finally was able to pre-order a while ago. Yeah, so she's very excited to read it. But I wanted to ask, have you noticed since you became a mom, has that affected or changed your choices as all as an actor? Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, I don't know. I don't know. I think- I know scheduling-wise, but I'm talking like the choices that you saw. Yeah, probably the creative choice, right? Yeah, I mean, I think I'm just, yeah, I think I'm just, I don't know if it's to do with motherhood or not, but I'm definitely kind of bored with the same stuff that keeps coming my way. Like I keep getting asked by people like, oh, ma'am, you love this character. She's so feminist. She's divorced and she drinks vodka. Oh, ma'am, this character, she's a complete psychopath. So, you know, I'm kind of like really tired of hearing those phrases where just a wild girl or a crazy girl is like- Drinks vodka. You know, integrated. Yeah. And yeah, yeah, I guess I'm looking for something a little more like earthy or even comic or lighthearted. But yeah, so I don't know exactly what it is and if it's to do with motherhood or maybe just, you know, majority. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. With this question, I have then actually stemmed somewhat into process that you would use as an actor. And I wonder how much since you've been a mom and now you have done some acting, since you have been a mom, have you found that there is, for lack of a better term, a whole new world of things that you access emotionally when you're, even if the character is not a mom, is that have you noticed any difference in your acting process now that you're a mom or is it pretty much unchanged and it's just part of your life now? I think that you just, anyway, as a mother, you're kind of extremely alert. You have to be on your toes all the time. You know, like in the middle of the night, it's the smallest change in breath of my child and I'm awake. You know, like you have some secondary like switch that comes on and I think that that kind of stayed. And so when I'm on, you know, when I'm acting, I feel like I'm much more ready with whatever comes from any direction before it was kind of like, I don't know, you just, you know your lines, you're gonna say them, don't bump into the furniture or whatever, but now it's, oh, you hear a sound outside and maybe that's gonna affect the way you say it. So yeah, it seems like there's this extra, you know? Yeah. So I know you've talked extensively, it seems like almost every interview had asked you about being somebody who has white skin, but obviously is Indian and working and how people accepted that. Obviously you grew up in Tamil, Nandu, right? Yeah. Yeah, but how was it difficult for like, let's say the Hindi industry to accept you and to not give you just stereotypical, because we complain about white people in Indian cinema all the time. All the time. Obviously, what's wonderful obviously about you is obviously you don't play any of those roles, you play Indian roles, you just happen to not look like everyone else. So was it difficult to, for like the industries to realize you're just an Indian who looks different? Does everybody else give you these normal roles? How long did it take for them to realize that? Yeah, yeah. So my first film, Dave D, I played a prostitute and after that was an article that came out about how I was Russian and that I didn't need to act, play this role. It was really a very scathing, horrible. Wow. Horrible thing. Yeah, and I was really like, I was just fresh in this industry and I didn't know that people can just make things up and no one can do anything about it. And so I remember that feeling of like, no, no, why can't I talk to you? Why, you know, so I remember that frustration and of course over time, people have heard me talk about my background and all of that have started accepting my Indianness. But yeah, it is frustrating and it's something I have to make peace with. I mean, I cannot play like, you know, a small rural tribal village person, I don't have the right look for it. And yeah, you know, I have to work within my limits of what I can do with my physical appearance. So I guess everybody has that one way or the other. Yeah. Did you find after Devdi, was there, did it take a while for people to accept you as the fact that, hey, yo, guys, I'm Indian or did it actually happen, did it take a while? It did take a while. It took a while, it took a few years. I think I went back to doing a lot of theater after Devdi and it took a while to get some cinema work. But the first film that really kind of broke through was Die Jivani and Die Jivani, where I play this role of Aditi and there's no, I mean, my director didn't bother to like, color my hair black or try and make me look more Indian. He just feels like, you look lovely like this, we want you like this, but you're Aditi and you're from Bombay. And it was a huge hit and the film was really well accepted and this character was really well loved. So yeah, that was the point where it changed. Yeah. What do you look for in a director-actor relationship? Not a husband. Nice, nice, nice. Yeah, me and Anuragha are still good friends, so we can joke about it now. But yeah, I think what I look for is collaboration as much as possible and workshopping. I mean, I'm really interested in prepping before the role. And a lot of times in films in India, at least in our industry, it's just like get on the floor as fast as possible and there's no time to prepare. So I'm all about like doing workshops and preparing and meeting your husband on screen, but before you actually have to shoot the love scene. Yeah, sure, sure. Did you get to, I would hope and expect this, but I'm not going to make an assumption. Considering that you worked with Nasiruddin, who is a grand thespian, did you get to have time where you got to work that? Because it feels so much like a play throughout the film. I'm anticipating you guys did get to do that, workshopping. Talking about waiting. In waiting, we actually did a lot of readings. We didn't do any workshopping, because I think Nasiruddin is just too experienced for workshops. Yeah, not as much. But we did do a lot of readings and we had a lot of time when we were in Kerala on location, you know, we spent, because there was also another track going on with Rajat's character and stuff. So we had a lot of time where we would sit and work out the scenes and we did improvise around the lines and things like that, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I mean, you've worked with a whole bunch of people that are, we've got the pleasure of being able to talk to, but we consider some of the best actors in the world, really. But what was it like being able to specifically on waiting work with, was this the second time? Did you, were you able to work with them on the Debra? In yellow book. Yellow, OK. Yeah, Nasiruddin, you're talking about Nasiruddin? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I worked with him on that girl in yellow boots, yeah, as well. Yeah, what's it like working with a legend like that? Well, I'm glad I got to do it twice, because the first time was, I was a mess. I was so nervous around him and he was improvising like crazy and Hindi and my Hindi is really shit. At least it was there. And so I was really like, oh, my God, what am I doing here? And I couldn't look him in the eyes. And every time I looked him in the eyes, I forgot my lines. And thankfully, the director was my husband, so he didn't fire me. But it was really, really hard the first time round. But the second time round, I think I was, I had done a lot more work and I'd also met Nasir a few times and watched his plays. And yeah, it was fun. It was exciting to be there with him and improvise and do that work. So yeah, I'm glad I got the second chance. Yeah. Yeah. And have you had an opportunity to work with him on stage yet live for a play? No, no, we came close. He was directing a play called The Father. And we came close, but I had some other shoots going on. So I couldn't do it. But I'd love to. Olivia Coleman's father, the father of that one? Yeah, yeah, the one above. Oh, my goodness. You would have played it? Yeah, and you would have played Olivia Coleman's character? Yeah. Oh, that was amazing. That would be fantastic to see you two do. Oh, that would have been amazing. It's so sad. Hopefully one day we'll be able to see you guys on stage again. I think that would be amazing. The same, I'm not sure. But it is about him losing his memory, right? Yeah, yeah. Correct. Absolutely. So I heard you talk about on Margarita with a straw, which obviously is an amazing performance of yours. I'm sure you hear that all the time because it's true. But I heard that when you were preparing for that, the director didn't want you working on anything else. And you all just got to focus on this character for what, a good six months or so, correct? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you like that intensive process as an actor working on something for that long? Or do you prefer shorter stents to where you can delve deep and then kind of cut it off? I loved it. I really loved it. I wish we got that kind of time every time because your whole body transforms. You start building a language of its own. I was in character during shoot all the time. So even if I was on a lunch break or I needed to go to the loo, I stayed in character. And it just made it, it just became so much more organic. I didn't have to think about what this character will do. It just became automatic. So much so that when I finished the role and I went on, I think I had a play going on. And I was having trouble just getting rid of Leila. I was like, oh my God, I don't have cerebral palsy. And I couldn't perform. So it was a very strange feeling. Of course, it was really intense, grueling. And I had to start actually taking swimming. I had to start doing swimming in between because my back started getting really a lot of pain from the way that I was twisting and sitting all day. So I had started doing swimming classes, not swimming classes, but just swimming as physio. And yeah, and then after I finished, I remember just being very relieved that it was done because it was quite an exhausting process as well. Yeah, I'm sure. And obviously the process for a character like that is going to be very different because you are incorporating the physicality of the character. And I'm not surprised that it was the way you're describing it. Is the process pretty much the same for you with each character? Or have you found that they take on a life of their own and it's just, depending upon the character, it's a different way you go about portraying the character. Yeah, it's always different. I never know what process I'm going to use. I mean, I think with Margarita, it was very method and staying in the character. Some characters I don't do any work on. It's just like go there and see what happens. And then some which, yeah, you just have to be more spontaneous, you need to be, so rather than sort of thinking about the character, I would just play pranks on set or do things, because the character is like a D. So we'd always be joking around, even when we're off-screen. So I don't know, it's just, it really depends what each character needs. And sometimes you just can't predict what happens on each day, forget just character. Like the weather that day can change the way you act. Everything is like a kind of a stimulus for the way you're going to perform. Definitely a co-actor and how they react. Absolutely, yeah. And so on characters like in Margarita or other intensive characters that you'd have to play, what's the first, is some people try to find the voice of a character first and that's when they, that's where they start the process. Do you start on a certain way? Do you try to find the voice, the walk, anything like that? It's not usually the voice of the walk. It's actually very simply clothes, like a costume. Sometimes I just really overdress the character, how they would dress and get, and make it just a little game, like do it in my daily life when I'm just going for a meeting or whatever and see how people react to me when I'm like that, or, you know, and kind of play off others really. They're the inspiration. Who would be some of the actors or actresses throughout your life, whether it was when you were younger or currently right now and they could be the same people? Who are the actors that have inspired you the most and have made you want to get even more into the craft and just love their work? Wow, growing up I was, I was a big admirer of Tabu's work and his work on Kona Sen Sherma and in the international kind of scene, Julia Pinoche, of course, Meryl Streep. And yeah, I'm thinking there's so many people, but now I'm just, you know, Daniel Day-Lewis. Yeah, there are many, many good actors out there. What is one thing you would love to change about, let's say, the Hindi film industry? I think the writing, I mean, we have very few good writers and what tends to happen almost virtually every script, almost every script is that we just adapt the lines and change the lines and, you know, kind of improvise around the lines. But we never, you know, like when you re, you know, when you do a play, especially like a Shakespeare, you don't change the lines, you just say what. You, to the dot, you know, the semicolon, everything. So I would love to respect the script that much and I feel there isn't that kind of respect for scripts here. And there are, you know, now with the OTT platforms, like the web series, and there are like much more interesting writers coming along, but they usually not paid enough to do a good enough job or not paid over a long period of time, you know, because you need to like fine tune something. Yeah. Sure. What would be, I mean, it's two-part question, simple. What's your favorite thing about acting if you can pick one or two? And what's your least favorite thing about acting? So my favorite thing about acting is that you, you can always be surprised. You could be doing the same play over and over. I've done hundreds of shows of some plays and you still find something new. That for me is amazing. And the second revelation that I've found as an actor is instead of fighting the energy you have of that day, like I used to be like, oh, but this character is excited and I'm really tired today, but I've got to get into the excited mood, you know, to play this character. But instead of that, like accepting your body, what it's going through that day and still playing the character. Is that character is allowed to be tired as well, even if it's an extended character. And that was the revelation I loved when it happened. And the worst thing about acting? Least favorite, yeah. Your least favorite thing about being an actor. Least favorite thing about acting? Oh, it's harder. I love it. Yeah, not knowing when your next job is, not knowing sometimes you have everything coming together at the same time, 10 things that you can't handle all of them. And then other times you have nothing and it's a desert for months and months. So obviously, as you've talked about, you've done at least a few now, OTT series in Sacred Games or Made in Heaven or other ones like that, which you were fantastic in both. And you got to act with so many great actors in those. Do you like the direction that OTT is heading and telling new different stories and also actors who aren't the stereotypical big Shahrukh Khan style of stars? Getting to star in these OTT platforms like a Pankaj or Nawaz or Jim and yourself and Sirbita and all those. Do you like the direction that heading? Yeah, for sure. It's so nice. It's wonderful for everyone, for actors, for crew members, writers, musicians. Everyone is getting like to do stuff that otherwise you were kind of like just doing the same thing over and over. So it's definitely opened up creativity in an amazing way. Yeah, no doubt. What do you think is the biggest difference? It's also terrible, terrible. I have to say to every yes I say on an OTT platform there's about 10 nodes. Oh. There are so many bad scripts out there that are being made for new platforms that everyone wants to make something now. And so it's also like a free-for-all, yeah. What's the biggest difference do you think in OTT versus film in India? Or is there a difference at all in terms of what you do? No, there's a huge difference. It's the audience, right? So in OTT platforms you're depending a lot more on an urban audience, you know? And so you can kind of really, not you don't need to spoon feed the audience, whereas I think with cinema here it's such a family occasion that most films wanna be very, very PG and they don't wanna go to any sort of slightly sexual content or political content. And also the songs, right? So it's like an event of three hours and you've gotta make it full of these items or songs in them. And yeah, that I think is gone in OTTs. Just make a very real kind of story. Yeah. I asked this question of all actors because I find they all have a very similar answer. Being someone who loves theater and fully is aware of the fact that that is an actor's medium and that film is the director's medium. Do you have a preference of the mediums? Do you prefer stage? Do you prefer film? Do you prefer working on a TV series as an actress? I mean, you know, I suppose that if the paycheck was the same for theater I would do a lot more theater. I think most actors would agree with you. Yeah, yeah, because there's something really magical about the live audience and feeding off that and the applause, not just the applause, but every sigh, every moment they're with you in an emotion, you really feel the energy in the room and this is the only reason. I mean, I'm not religious, but this is the only reason I believe there's more to life than this because you literally feel an energy in the room and that's magical. But having said that, you know, the kind of detailing that I've gotten to do in cinema, you know, it's two very different processes. And I love exploring them both. It's like, I don't want to choose like mom and dad. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you talked about doing the big Bollywood numbers and I wanted to ask you about that because it's obviously something so different than what we have here. Obviously we have musicals, but those are a little different than what they have. Yeah, up with the musical. Is it ever awkward doing these big Bollywood numbers in character? Does it ever feel weird or does it just feel like a big Broadway show doing them? I mean, I'm a terrible dancer. So it's a real, it's just a real effort for me to like get, you know, those steps right. And I always feel like, you know, it's a little bit of a, it's like a little bit of a, it's like a little bit of a little bit of a dance. Slightly like a half a second behind everybody else when we're dancing. Yeah, and I'm like trying to hide behind another actor. So I have that problem, but you know, I don't think so. I think that, you know, it's okay to be over the top. It's a form of acting. It's a different style. And yeah, it's hard, it's hard for me to do it, but I do love the challenge of it as well. Yeah. Corbin and I, as actors, when you watch another actor do great work, you not only are inspired by it simply for the greatness you're watching, but your thoughts are, I would love to work with that particular artist. And you have worked with some amazing artists, but my question is, is there anybody you've yet to work with that you really want to work with? Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Who do I want to work with? I want to work with besides Vishal. What do you not know? I mean, yeah, what did you say? I said besides Vishal, but obviously he's not an actor. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I mean, obviously all the names I've said already, like Juliette Pinoche, and I would love to work with, but I think closer to home, I have to think, hang on, sorry guys. You've worked with a lot of the great ones already. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I'd love to work with Rassika. Rassika, the world, she's amazing. Yes, she is. I would love to work with, gosh, why am I going so blank? I'm sorry. You've worked with all of them already. No, no, there are, there are, there are more. Okay, let's get them back to the special. Okay, for sure. No worries, no worries. And so on working, is that something one, after you've looked into the script and you decided it's a good script, is that one of the next things you'd look for is the people involved, not only the director, but the actors. And these actors, how is it working with people like that, with like Naser, the Pankaj, Nawaz, people of that fespionatic ilk? Is it freeing as an actor to, like when you see on the script on the call sheet that day that you're going to be doing this scene, is it freeing as an actor, knowing that your partner is literally just going to give you everything you need? Yeah, of course, it's very exciting. It's very good. I mean, because actually you don't need to do much, you just need to react. So it's wonderful if you have somebody who's giving in that way and really like playing off each other. It can be intimidating as well. Yeah, if it's someone really famous and really with a great reputation or sometimes they have a really difficult reputation but they're a really good actor. So yeah, it's all good things. Is there any advice you would give to yourself if you had the opportunity to talk to yourself when you were about 14 or 15? I would say it's really okay to be different and it's okay to like, you know, you don't need to fit in. I think when I was 15, it was very important for me to fit in. And yeah, now it's really like, everybody's trying not to fit in and everyone wants to be like special. So. Well, I wanna thank you so much for chatting with us. I'm gonna, I wanna end it off here if we can with a little bit of rapidifier. You know who we're stealing this from, but not asking those questions. I got my own kind of questions here. So you can just answer these however you'd like. What do you think is your toughest role? Margarita was the strongest role, was the toughest, yeah. Have you ever been high or drunk during an interview or a press junket? No, but I have been while I've acted. That was quite scary. I will not say when and where and with words. Favorite curse word in Hindi or Tamil? One thing you wish you were told before becoming a parent? Yeah, I wish they would have told us that, you know, you get hit by a truck for the first six months. Just bear yourself for a tough, tough, tough dive. Absolutely. A film you feel is overrated? Overrated. Gosh, I haven't seen anything in recent times. Didn't have to be recent. Okay, okay. Film that was overrated. Gosh, Bollywood or Hollywood, anything? Doesn't matter, I think Titanic's overrated, but... Titanic, oh, I cried so much. I was weeping during Titanic. Me too. Oh, I'm trying to think. I really can't think of anything. Why am I so blank? Okay, what was the last big film that came out? Oh, I know, the Superman, Superman. Batman? Spider-Man. No, not the one that came out just now, the one before that, the one where they had all those... Yeah, where he was thinking about that. That one was really disappointing. Yeah, yeah. Gotcha. Favorite alcoholic beverage? At the moment, I'm really enjoying Mead's. I'm drinking... Oh, nice. Yeah, honey-based. As an Irish man, I appreciate that. The thing that is shouted at you the most. That is shouted at me the most. Like when people come up to you, what do they say to you the most? Like do they quote something at you? Like a fan quoting something or calling you by a character name? Oh, yeah, yeah. I mean, Reese, I live in a slum, so Gully Boy is really big there. I live literally outside of a slum, and everybody's wearing the T-shirt. So, yeah, they just think like Gully Boy, Gully Boy, and they keep clapping to me and everything. Favorite actor? Gosh, these are really hard. Challenging questions. I know, I'm sorry. Yeah. I like Ryan Gosling. Yeah. Favorite actors? Michelle Williams. Like her. Nice. Many actors. It's very hard to say one favorite. Absolutely. Favorite director? Hollywood, India, Indian film industry. I'm trying to think. Or just a couple that you. Yeah, at least one. Like if you see a director has attached to a film, you immediately just assume I've got to go see their movie because they directed it. In Bollywood, it's the Vata Banerjee. I've worked with him as well, but I don't know. I don't know. In Hollywood, it's the Vata Banerjee. I've worked with him as well, but I just love everything he does. In Hollywood, probably. Parents mallet. I like his stuff. Okay. But this, yeah, this. Yeah, I don't know why. I think it's just. It's the mommy break. Yeah. Favorite Indian film. Any, any region. Favorite Indian film. Could be old, could be new. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm thinking of Piazza. Yeah, that's a great one. Yeah, I love it. I think we have that one up here somewhere. And last one, if you could take an acting class slash workshop with one person dead or alive, who would you take that class from? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Of course. Thank you so much for talking to us. It's, it's been an absolute pleasure. We wanted to talk to you. We so appreciate your talent. And the choices that you decide to make. We think you're one of the, the, the best actors. Acting. And we really appreciate how much you appreciate the craft and the, the amount of effort that you put in. And so thank you for that. And also thank you for talking to us, Rick. Yeah. I, when Corbin mentioned this at the beginning, Gully Boy was our introduction. We had never set out to do a channel that was based on Indian content. We were actors who were in love with film and we were talking about American cinema and a subscriber just happened to say. React to Gully Boy, the trailer. And we knew nothing. We had the perfect stereotype of most Americans about Bollywood and Indian cinema. And the trailer blew us away. And then when we saw the film. To say that Gully Boy has been life-changing for us. I mean, I've, this is, this is inked on my arm. Wow. Yeah. Wow. And that. That is, that is because from day one, that film and all of the artists, you, Ranveer, Alia, and the whole cast, Zoya's direction. Was literally life-changing for us, not just in the life of our channel, but in our understanding and appreciation of the greatness of the level of artistry. Coming out of India. And yet, Corbin, we have wanted to talk to you for so long because at the core of this were actors who want to see the best in this industry, elevated and talk to them and to hear where they come from. So you are truly for us. Not just an Indian cinema. You are for us, one of our favorite actors. Anywhere in the world. And we're really thankful you spent time with us today. Thank you. Thank you so much. It was wonderful talking to you had to have a wonderful night. Thank you both of you. Thank you so much. Thank you for talking to you. And for some reason now, I always think of that Bruce Willis film. Because of your name. Corbin Dallas. Corbin Dallas. Corbin Dallas. Corbin Dallas. Corbin Dallas. Corbin Dallas. Corbin Dallas. Corbin Dallas. Corbin Dallas. Corbin Dallas. Corbin Dallas. Corbin Dallas. Corbin Dallas. Corbin Dallas. Corbin Dallas. Corbin Dallas. Corbin Dallas. Corbin Dallas. Corbin Dallas. Corbin Dallas. Corbin Dallas. Corbin Dallas. Corbin Dallas. Corbin Dallas. Corbin Dallas. Corbin Dallas. Corbin Dallas. Corbin Dallas. Corbin Dallas. Corbin Dallas. Corbin Dallas. Corbin Dallas. Corbin Dallas. Corbin Dallas. Corbin Dallas. Corbin Dallas. Corbin Dallas.