 I should be yeah hi there you are hey how are you how are you doing i'm doing good good it's been a bit crazy this whole uh you know in the last couple of days because we're getting up a mishap or to um release uh so yeah yeah that's been uh hello a week how has uh the pandemic been treating you you know i mean i guess everybody's just it's gone to shits right the world yeah right right yeah have y'all started back up any filming at all or no uh yeah yeah we have i think work has has begun um in many parts but we're just being cautious because clearly like india's stopping the charts um right we're not far behind yeah yeah we're out there with you guys man are you are you guys doing um like here in the states where shows are back in production they're getting really strict with like doing covid testing every day and things of that nature you guys have implementation for stuff like that yeah i mean not every day but i think like i had to do one twice before i started shoot sure but again i don't i don't even understand it like i don't get it you get a covid test and the very next second you could just catch it from the next literally literally yeah it's just like one big little bubble like i don't even know what the hell it is so we're just playing along and that's what's going to become like rules and and protocol i suppose so yeah yeah uh well i want to thank you for for chatting with us uh we uh big admirers we just watched mazipar probably about i think it's almost a month ago which is way later than most people watched it um so we're very very excited for season two to come out and we'll get to that in a little bit but we wanted to talk about you as a actor and a performer first so how did you first get into uh acting oh um wow that's i was uh i was a ball player i was uh playing hockey back in school and i mean i i literally broke my arm and and i was in um i was in this boarding school and you know you gotta you gotta keep doing something or the other and i remember my friend saying telling me like uh you know there's this there's this troupe that's come to school they're doing shakespeare and your english isn't bad why don't you go try you know and and and don't don't get depressed and shit and go do something you know just because i was i had plans man i had like i i played serious ball and um and i went and i thought and i think it yeah it worked out yeah i would say so so ever since then i came to bombay and you know bombay was you know the indian cinema and uh you know i started small i started with cameos and then um around the same time i did i did a cameo and like fast and furious which is one very random thing i did and and so it was like this parallel sort of beginning of of cinema now i want to stage before that yeah a little bit of stage before that um i really want to ask you a question because when i i did not realize you you were abdull which is the highest level compliment i could give to you because you are what i would describe as a shapeshifter as an actor that you can transform yourself because i loved victoria and abdull when it came out thank you it was one of my favorite films of the year uh i loved everything about it your character in this series is so different that you were literally unrecognizable and i just wanted to know is this something that has come naturally to you have you had extensive training how what's what's your story as far as your development as an actor ah i feel like a cheat sometimes that's what it is i i i i i i um i i read a lot i never got a chance to study acting actually so i did it on stage um i read a lot of books because i was a science student i was um god i was in economics and and my god i did my masters and all that so so studies was happening on one side but i think it's been learning on the job and and sort of uh being i suppose being aware of of just the human condition right um yeah um also i mean there would there's been a huge influence of of like western cinema in my life because we were i mean we were religious about about following the award season since we were kids and you know and back then like the movies never released in india so i mean we would pirate that shit and just literally get the movie some of you know and it's so weird because i remember getting those dvd screeners you know from torrents and and now i'm sitting i'm a voting member and i get those freaking dvd screeners i'm thinking my god like this is this is bad um um but but it's um i mean yeah you know i i i wish i did and sometimes i feel like i have to play catch up when it comes to grammar of cinema when it comes to i mean just evolving i suppose as an actor as as a person uh but it has happened i think as i've moved along um like i thought abdul could have maybe could have been you know a notch up but then that's me thinking now at the time that's the best i knew um mizapur mizapur 2 is a very part 2 is actually a totally different take on i mean it's a major shift in this character so i i don't know i don't you know it's it's pretty much a gamble actually yeah but sometimes it's calculated and i like to think you know the most spontaneous things come out when they're when they're well choreographed as opposed to just going with the flow on on the subject of hollywood and indian cinema cinema was that always a conscious effort that you wanted to have a career in both because there's very few that i can think of prominent indian actors had have done it as successfully as you have already done it i'm thinking irfan taboo uh and and very few others that have been able to actually have successful careers in both was that always a conscious effort that you wanted to do um it wasn't always a conscious effort i think i think the first one was it happened you know fast and furious was was just uh they weren't even casting in india and i remember i just i'd tested and and it worked out because you know we were um i don't know we're just playing around with voices and and just having fun with it and it was a fun set but um but i think uh but i think it made me realize that there is um there is access you know there is access to world cinema and not just american but but even european or whatever and i want to be yeah i want to be able to be open to that i think stories i mean at the end of the day emotions connect us all across right it's the same nine emotions that we're dealing with all across the planet and you know it's just the geography that's that sort of keeps um and of course our cultures and everything um so yeah hell yeah you know i think indian cinema is great it's happening it's evolving but um i'm not planning to leave home but at the same time you know i've always been interested because you know the i think the sometimes the quality benchmarks are definitely higher on the other side right like we've grown up watching friend cinema and and and polish and and american um great some hollywood classics and stuff and i think yeah there's great work happening on both sides yeah yeah so that it would i would assume then that that's your mindset moving forward is just to be open to all of it and that you would love to work wherever there's just the opportunity to do good work yeah i think that's the idea to be able to just evolve as much as we can right i mean as as people that is the idea to be able to reinvent yourself i mean i i don't i sometimes did feel like i was working in india and there were projects i was working on i used to feel really stale and and you know when when that when somebody's not pushing you out of your your limits and sort of using you for for maybe what you can bring to the table i mean like i i just i worked with friars on on victorian abdul and i would really amaze me is and i mean every actor goes on set and he has a he has a play right when you you know you're seen you have a certain thing in mind yeah and then there's the director who comes in and just sort of throws you off you know and and and you improvise and and you work within those those boundaries you know that little skeleton that he gives you and it's fun because you discover something new and and you work with it and i thought that's such a that's that's magic that's like two people creating something out of it wasn't thought of right yeah out of it he he thought of something and i thought of something and then we bring in and i merge that with with his little uh you know um anyway yeah because of something sudo yeah no that's that that that is a really great point and that leads me to a question in regard to that because improvisation corbin and i talk about that all the time it's just it's so important for an actor to be able to freely improvise because oftentimes that's where the magic real moments take place and yeah you know having worked with dame judy dench and friars and have you found um have the maybe a hard question for you to answer but has the larger influence uh as far as you're expanding as an actor understanding improv learning onset has that come from the actors you've worked with more the directors who shaped you or is it kind of a mix of both i think it's been a been a bit of both but mostly i think the directors i've worked with because also it's like uh there's a director in india called tigman chudulia and there's a director and of course i recently worked with kenneth branna uh on death of nile and i mean he's he's he's an actor and and so he's so giving and he's always open to to changes and you know what an actor is bringing to to the set and and and those are moments when you get to lift off the page right because uh it's because i because i've worked with people who are very sacrosanct very religious about the page and about the text and and that's fine uh each to his but um but i thought in those moments i was pushed to sort of make sense of the world around me and and and actually uh and deliver so it was fun so that that improvisation was it worked out i mean thank god it did yeah yeah um you've actually worked with quite a few legends of indian cinema and the hollywood cinema like absolute legends obviously dame judy denge kenneth uh branna trippethy uh like who was probably the most intimidating person that you had to act alongside with oh in terms of having to act with them wow i don't um i can't think of i don't know i just uh i get really excited when there's when there's a big actor around me yeah because they make my freaking job easy yeah right so i'm i'm sorry i'm like i sound yeah but it's a selfish thing like i it's true they make me look good yeah when when when there's um you know when there's an ed benning yeah and and right next to me or russel brand or whatever i mean yeah yeah you know the others um it was just it was nice it was like okay you know i can i can do my thing and they're just uh they're doing theirs and they're doing a pretty good job so um but yeah i don't i don't know maybe aamir khan once i mean that was my first film and and i thought um i was a bit nervous and sure and he broke the ice and he sort of sort of guided me through it you know yeah um nervous i don't know maybe maybe i guess vindy's ill for some reason like a freaking he's like this boss man yeah just sort of you know like hey man you know and you're thinking like is he gonna beat the shit out of me right now or is he just gonna take me to the corner and he says you know i want to make you meet somebody buddy and you know and then it takes me to the writer or whatever and and sort of we have this little chat um no but these guys it's just for that little moment you know i had a bit of a okay you know how how did you become you know because it's really it's quite impressive astonishing whatever other adjectives you want to use that you were able to come basically especially from a western audience out of nowhere per se to star alongside dame judy dancin victorian abdul how did you become involved with victorian abdul again it was it was weirdly uh they were casting in india or abdul um and it was just a just an experiment apparently that because they they probably would have gone with somebody based out of there uh from london but they tried to test people in india and i wasn't even called for it i i just i was literally sitting with an agent and she said um yeah there's this film happening and at the time i think they were looking at maryl streep and and and dame both of them uh because because yeah because freers had just worked with with with maryl streep on uh jenkins um florist florins yeah yeah yeah so um so i just i literally like i think i squeezed myself into that casting i called the casting director i said listen i'll shoot it on my phone i'll send it to you and what's the harm because it was that day was the last day five p.m i still remember and and i said i'll just do one scene and there's nothing to lose right it just send it off and she said okay fine you know whatever yeah and yeah and then 25 i think another 20 25 days later i i got a call they want to meet me i think yeah they flew down and freers which was again really scary because i remember meeting freers for the first time this is this is steven freers i walk into to the hotel room beban a kid drawn a producer she's sitting there very sweet steven freer since we're all across the couch because he has a freaking deli belly so and i love him man he's a he's a grumpy old sweetheart right yeah he's that grumpy guy who goes right you know speak scene read you know and it's and i'm this guy i'm just like this is my first time in front of a legend and i think that's where you can say like i got i got really scared like that was the first time i got intimidated by somebody and yeah um but then yeah but then it worked out so i was happy for that no yes it did uh and now you you have a film i don't know if it's still coming out in december or not but death on the nile right um yes uh what can we expect from that i mean that has what army hammer uh gauguedo kenneth oh yeah uh what can we expect from that film oh that's that's gonna be a fun one that's um i'm really excited because um god it's such a diverse cast and and um and i'm really grateful that it's been also a result of like blind casting because my part was played by george kennedy uh you know who is back in the day in the first movie um the 1971 film with betty davis and and maggie smith and everybody but um so so i remember that time that the character was uncle andrew and now it's it's cousin andrew so so gal plays linnie and and both of our characters are cousins and um and he's british he's not indian so it's it's it's there's just no there's no reference for uh of of where they belong and and from where they come from you know there's just no mention of that we're just characters in an agate christie movie and we're suspects and you know if it's still supposed to come out in december yeah yeah i mean that's the last news we heard they it was supposed to come out the same day as mizapur actually october 23rd uh yeah so i think but it's a good thing that they they pushed it um because i mean we shot it on film and this is 65 panavision this is like serious film uh cameras so yeah you don't want to please i don't want to miss that yeah please yeah put it in a put it on a big screen absolutely yeah i miss it i miss that yeah we need that i do too uh well speaking of mizapur um first of all you were one of the first characters we were impressed with the fact that initially we see your character we see gudu and we're thinking okay this is just going to be some brainless beefcake guy right initially and one of the first things that impressed us was and this is really a genuine compliment is the fact that you played this character that at first does come across as just a total he's focused on his body he doesn't seem to be very smart that's not an easy thing to do and make it believable yeah it can be really it can be really cliche and you were one of the first things that impressed us with the show was that believability so i just how did you become involved with the series and then i'd love to know about the physical transformation yeah i mean it was uh i i the the director came to me and he you know they offered me i mean they tested me first and i in fact they offered me the the villain the other part uh manu after uh munna yeah munna okay and yeah but they tested me for gudu so it was weird and i and i was so sold on that because i thought there was something very something undone something undiscovered about this this this boy and and that really excited me you know the unpredictability about this this character the fact that it will require a team for this thing to come together um you know i mean i'm talking costumes i'm talking direction i'm talking the other actors and of course the physicality the look so i designed that look i literally sat with my director and i said you know this like you shouldn't have hair and this is how i see him uh and the thing was at the time i don't think anybody see also the thing is in india uh things work it's like you're you're cast for what you are your last friday right right so so it's it's your image that is cast in the next movie and and right and so for for so it was a nice little surprise when somebody took a chance on me there were like two people gunning for me in the production house thinking we think this guy might be able to put it off because i've never done parts like that and i've always played like very you know sort of oh oh there you are okay sorry about that all right i think we're good yeah go ahead oh okay yeah all right we're good yeah the fact that they took a shot with you and let you do something outside of what your last role was yeah i think uh i think that was something really commendable and they gave me a chance to do that um but i like i said you know it like i took about six months to get ready for it um i six to seven months actually of course you know in two months on during shoot i carried on like working out because the physical transformation was a lot i'd never i'd never been like i'd never done something like that you know just built like muscle mass so that was really hard especially because i also wasn't on um steroids or anything like that um so that was just it was just double the work um yeah um yeah so i remember i mean i got that size and we were working on like compound muscles and um it was it was pretty hard i mean the training was hard and i think eventually um yeah i mean we we we pulled something some version of it yeah how how hard was that to me i mean i understand getting in shape prior to filming how freaking was that to maintain while you were filming it's crazy i mean i was i was like a bit cranky on sets because we were shooting like 12 hours 12 40 more sometimes and we were right like in in the interiors of of india like this is where Mirzapur is um and it was hot and then you're working out for two two hours a day so i was on a bit of a less sleep and um um but but yeah i mean you know i think i suppose it worked out eventually a lot of uh a lot of breast milk uh to drink a lot of can you imagine that's true that actually the people do that right yeah i i remember there was somebody in in i saw this documentary somebody in the states uh this this this woman she packs like some freaking like like thousands of of of packets of her breast milk and like that's her life like that's how she she sells it oh wow she sells it online like she sells it yeah yeah wow does it work uh i'm sure there's other sources of protein that work out just fine so uh i've seen in the promos that you now have a luscious beard in season two uh so what can we expect obviously if you haven't seen mazipur people watching obviously go watch season one go it might be spoilers here so um what can we expect from your character and also mazipur season two um well season two is is i mean the stakes are high emotions are high um you know it's it's also a very different choice as an actor like i've taken because again it's again it's human right yeah your your your half your family is wiped out in front of your eyes what do you do right you you can go crazy you can walk out you go for the revenge you go for whatever um so yeah i thought i thought it was a choice welcomed by my by my filmmakers by my director by my writer um and i i kind of stuck with it and um it's a it's a it's a little mature uh good do it's um it's uh i i think i always saw him as somebody who is very lazy and he was not just dumb because his father was a lawyer his his brother was smart um you know his sister smart his mother is like this crazy weird genius sort of person um i mean i just i just felt like the apple cannot fall far from the tree and and and he was just he was not interested in all this stuff he was always interested in like you know the cool stuff and you know bodybuilding right right or you know aping like favorite movie stars i mean that's what these guys do in small cities you know um but now his push comes to shove and and it's the fan and um but it's a subtle change i i suppose you know through season two and you see him sort of finding his own um i mean so he becomes the the brain and the brawn almost i mean he has to i don't know what happens eventually i shouldn't i shouldn't be giving out but you know i think i think it's it was i mean shooting it was a bit lonely because vikrant was a great sort of you know thing to go with like he was um because we would sort of have this nice little duet but but this time shweta has come on you know she's playing go lu um and she turns into this lara crafty um you know uh image you know and and this this character so you see her sort of transforming into that but so yeah it's an interesting theme i mean we we see what happens yeah do you have a preference we've asked this question to all of every actor and even directors we've talked to and and we we've pretty much seen a uniform answer and it doesn't surprise us being actor so do you have a preference as to portraying roles that are film theater or being on a series like the one you're on right now i mean you know we love the celluloid i mean who doesn't right you gotta like that's it's a 70 mm it's it's big it's uh yeah but again you know theater is different theater is is like it feels like home and i think one day i will go back to it i just i don't find the time anymore and the commitment for it um and the money uh no i mean it's sad actually because indian theater is really is is theater is really really good but there's just no money here like we we still haven't cracked that what what london's done with national what i mean broadway is done for uh for america or so many other venues um new york pretty much but um but yeah so that that leaves me with film and series i think uh series of course i mean depends if they're really good scripts because it's a lot of commitment i mean shooting misappers like shooting three movies back to back you know and that's right and after a point you're like dude i'm done i'm like just get it done with you know yeah a lot of yeah um yeah so i didn't really answer that question movies for me if you ask me yeah okay uh who has influenced you as an actor in terms of um who like who you've drawn the most inspiration from uh in in hollywood world cinema indian cinema who's like the actor that you've you've looked up to the most or multiple of them i mean i mean definitely multiple but i think in india it's been i was a big fan of dilip kumar you know he was a he was a great actor one of the greats um i've been heavily influenced by brando i was just i think i'm you know of course so many people adore his style uh peter cellars marin brando um you know these are yeah yeah so you know this is and then there's something so there's a surprise that's that's almost like about to spring out in their in their performances and and that sort of keeps you and i love that i love their their choices as actors and i i've always always wondered where where that that that method comes from or whatever it is and i think um yeah yeah like i think wakin phoenix has that like he's he's he's so he's so measured yeah he's crazy he's i mean i don't know what it is but it's um i feel like after a point you you don't rely on instinct you know it's it's almost like you're stepping out of your body and you're observing your face and and it's just one canvas that's just in your in your in your you know you have um you have a grip on it and i think that's beautiful to be able to get there um i mean i'm i'm still learning and i you know i just i look up to these people i think they're pretty good yeah and to be able to do that i think you need to understand you need to sort of empathize with with the human condition right like with what's like i i see a lot of my colleagues and they're just they're just closed up and they're away from what's happening in the world but you can't be right like you got to be in sync with what the is happening everywhere because otherwise you're not you're just i mean in the name of art we're basically then just doing jobs and then i only say this because there's so much shit happening in our country and you know i guess everywhere right and it's just one of those phases right it's just like you know the the wave of um i suppose i don't know authoritarianism and and whatever you call it yeah yeah no and i i i agree i think the two most important attributes for any actor are the capacity to be deeply empathetic to the human condition and also have a vivid imagination if you've got those two if you have a vivid imagination and deep empathy you've pretty much got everything you need you just need to access it and and use that two part question what's your favorite thing about being an actor what's your least favorite thing about being an actor oh my god okay the favorite thing about being an actor is i think i think i think it's i think there's a little bit of a power game there right like you're you're you're standing there and for that little moment you know you have them by the balls you have them you you control the twitches on their faces for that one hour i have you i have your emotions i have your tension hopefully and yeah um the weakness is i suppose we're we're constantly we're just volatile and vulnerable people because we're we're subjected to rejection all the time we're supposed to get used to it and that one rejection is i suppose equal to somebody in another job losing that job that one job that you work for and we face that on a daily basis because you know out of 10 you know i mean like i test for parts or i've had a meeting that's gone you know bad and it doesn't work out and you feel the same but you've got to get up and then go back and back and back and um keep at it so that sucks yeah yeah yeah yeah what what's one thing you would like to change about indian cinema um actually about about hindi cinema is something i i would i would say uh we need to get out of that bubble and i think we are slowly this bubble of of just bollywood and that indian cinema is just bollywood and that's not no because i think i think down south yeah malayalam cinema yes they're like they are on my list like i just i'm starting to learn malayalam now because i want to work with them i think they're doing those are the movies that should be going for the oscars from from india not i mean i have as much respect for our indian cinema but and they're making some good stuff but hey man it's it's just really good so have you have you seen uh have you did you guys watch super deluxe yes we did oh yeah the one the one we really loved from uh was kumballaji knights from uh from malayalam brilliant brilliant it is anything with anything with fahad fasil in it is uh incredible uh and then if you i think fahad is go ahead no i think fahad is brilliant i think he has he's making great choices as a as an actor and a producer and it's really good have you seen uh uh helero or helerao hello how what is that hello around gudrati oh i haven't it's uh it's absolutely brilliant really yeah gudrati yeah but yeah we totally we totally totally agree obviously we've seen over 130 now i think in there's somewhere around that number in the year and a half or so that we've been doing uh indian content um and from all different regions and we've seen brilliant films from obviously hindi uh cinema um but the the fact that sometimes certain stuff gets sent to the oscars that we think could have beaten parasite style of films don't get sent uh so it's yeah we we agree with your frustration uh no but yeah i think i think we're we're slowly evolving and i i i feel that is something that i'm i just hope we can bridge that because and i think it's going to happen on its own because the canvas just got bigger and and now we're what we're a pause button away from rejection you know if somebody doesn't like you know you hit pause and you i'm on to the next french american show that i want to watch on amazon or netflix or whatever it is and yeah and i think we've seen we've seen a lot of our you know subscribers our stupid babies who've said thank you so much for opening our eyes to malayalam cinema and cinema from asam and cinema from off you know to lugo and tamil because they they even in their own country haven't opened themselves up to it and it's starting it's starting to happen uh you know corbin had mentioned go ahead no yeah please no no i'm just saying i'm so glad you guys are doing this like this is amazing because you know in the as far as i know the academy has records of only satyajit re and rithvik dhatak the two Bengali directors yeah right that is all we have in in in the archives of course maybe now you know but at the time um there was just all those years there was nothing you know with the academy and of course now there we have a database and everything but that's just huge there's so much cinema like so much court court was another marathi film if you yeah we no we haven't seen that one that one's probably our next marathi film you must so that's that's jaitanya tamahe who's tamanya tam tamahe right he's he's uh he just entered the venice film festival with his second film uh oh yeah yeah we saw the trailer for that the disciple yeah we saw that trailer um on on the the american indian uh relationship do you because for a long time because a thing i love to complain about in indian cinema is the white actors are just terrible uh any white foreign actors just awful um but that's been the same comparison with a lot of indians with hollywood cinema is that a lot of the indian actors are stereotyped do you see that that is changing now um since in more in hollywood films do you see it more like there's more open roles for just indians in general and people of color yeah i think i think we're we're done with you know i think all we knew at the time was how russell peters imitated indians right like yeah i mean that was that was just one caricature that that that became what indian was and and then that's how and i suppose there's also that generation of of nr is you know the non-resident indians who live and who live abroad who live in america so they that concept of indian was was a bit off yeah so i think that's happening now like in i remember on victoria and abdul i was i was pretty adamant on on certain pronunciations and certain like i i mean people sometimes would ask me why why would why is why is it so normal and i said you guys ruled over us for 200 years obviously we know english we you know i mean we knew good english and and there is no accent it's literally just proper queen's english just less twangs maybe and very yeah absolutely so yeah i think i think that is definitely slowly changing and i think you know like you said people like irfan irfan khan you know and ompuri and these people stuck it stuck to their guns and and did not sort of conform to that template so um and i'm glad they did that they left us a legacy and i hope i can sort of i don't know be be part of it yeah absolutely yeah yeah yeah yeah we had mentioned you know fahad basil and obviously irfan and people who are the legends in the business who are some of the folk now this is indian cinema american cinema whatever you want who are some of the people actors directors that you're like oh i want to work with them so badly who are some of the top of your list you want to work with oh i'm sure it's a long list yeah it's a long list i mean alan salkin the scorsese of course you have the regulars uh i mean i could i could go on there's yeah cleo bernard i don't know so many there are all kinds of directors um catherine bigelow um what else uh in a ritu i think he's of course he has he has a totally god he's doing some iconic stuff yeah he's really doing did you did you guys manage to see the virtual the vr stuff he did at the la museum he he created that he got the oscar for that entire project he got the governor's oscar the the the the honorary oscars for oh yeah yeah he did yeah yeah i was i remember i was there and and it was my god it was beautiful it's like this little vr uh trip that you go into and you end up at the border at the mexican border and how mexicans are being treated like you're you know it's it's you you get that experience now i didn't get to see that though yeah yeah it's pretty cool um but anyway yeah a lot of a lot of directors a lot of indian directors i think coming up again like i said chetanya is one hell of a director very young and yet i think he's he's gonna make um a lot of people proud um there's uh yeah zoe after there's uh she's she's really good yep um and a lot of i think tamil and and malayalam directors you know they're just there's an endless list there so yeah yeah well i want to thank you for for chatting with us man i want to finish it off by just a little bit of a rapid fire questions here uh uh before before we end it uh so coffee or chai oh man coffee i'm yeah i'm coffee good uh favorite alcoholic beverage um i'm i'm i'm beer what kind i mean oh wheat or yeah it's too easy i don't know it's good alcohol is good uh favorite hollywood film favorite what hollywood hollywood film uh or a couple um uh yeah i mean um on the waterfront last tango uh god i'm sorry i'm naming all brand-over films it's just no god no you're gonna pull me down there it's just a free card named desire yeah uh favorite favorite indian film any region mughlaism oh that oh yeah that's a classic right yeah a classic yeah we haven't we haven't seen that one yet you should watch that for the screenplay and and meet an arm joker um oh yeah yeah we've brilliant i think we've seen a song from that film meet an arm joker yeah we've seen a song from that one uh favorite hollywood director oh um um actually in a re2 i think he's um yeah bird man bird man was incredible incredible uh favorite indian director um camels were okay he's a very lesser known but yeah he's made some something crazy a long time back and i'm hoping to work with him hopefully if he comes out of hiding favorite hollywood actor or actress uh walking phoenix maryl Streep uh um emily blunt yeah and favorite indian actor an actress besides yourself of course uh i like taboo i think i think she's fabulous she's just a she's a rock star and um guys there's yeah i mean irfan bhai was the Nawazuddin is really good you know Nawaz is is is yeah he's very good he's i like it i do too and your favorite book whoa um lust for life lust for life yeah that's a story on on vango um the painter oh it's a great book should read it yeah look at that uh so thank you so much for for chatting with man it's been a pleasure uh we absolutely cannot wait for season two uh in what five five or so days uh to see your performance and everybody else that that's coming out with that so and we're very much looking forward to you doing stuff in all regions uh and and infiltrating the hollywood with uh more amazing indian actors so uh once again thank you for talking to us rick yeah we genuinely we you know we'd never fake anything at all if we don't like something we'll say it we love your show we love what you're doing the character and i'm reminded of what you said right at the very beginning of us talking to you when i asked you about your training and yeah you you please some of the greatest performances captured on film were done by children who had no training they were just emotionally available and they were 100 percent believable that's that's the level you have a natural giftedness that's extremely rare and we're rooting for you to do great things because you are in our opinion a tremendously gifted actor oh man you're you're you're really generous with your work i mean i mean it i genuinely mean it thanks man i mean thank you it's really sweet of you guys thank you yeah so we wish you great you have a great night all right man thank you thanks have a go on bye bye