In 'Chippendales,' actor Kumail Nanjiani embraces a complicated, criminal role

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In 'Chippendales,' actor Kumail Nanjiani embraces a complicated, criminal role
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Somen 'Steve' Banerjee, founder of Chippendales, was ultimately undone by his own corrupt business practices. 'He was the king of a world that wouldn't have him as a member,' Nanjiani says.

The first one that really hit me really hard was Jerry Seinfeld's HBO special. It was called— and it was him sort of doing a greatest hits of his entire career. ... It just blew me away. ...

This guy didn't have any of the things that I consider to be my strengths as a performer, you know? So it was really scary. I didn't know how to take those things out of my instincts. And if I'm shutting down such a big part of my personality, what's left? I was scared that people would not want to watch me as someone who doesn't have that in him, because maybe me without that isn't compelling.

I can walk down the street and someone will just come up to me and say something about my body. That still happens all the time. ... I think I understand like .00001% of what women have been going through their entire lives. I think I understand like .00001% of what women have been going through their entire lives. The big difference, of course, is that I don't feel scared walking alone in a parking lot at night — you know, that power differential isn't there. I feel like sometimes with women, men catcalling them or something feels a little bit like taking ownership of something that's not theirs. Men are sort of, in a way, taking power away from women in that moment. I don't have that.

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