Big Hearts, Big Laughs in Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Gordon’s cinematic love story, “The Big Sick”
Not everything needs to be a period piece. On the small screen, both Marc Maron and Pete Holmes brought their recent pasts into present-day so they could have the best of both worlds for their comedic purposes in IFC’s Maron and HBO’s Crashing. Similarly, when Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon set about putting the dramatic first year of their romance on the big screen in The Big Sick, setting it in the present day meant they could get extra joke mileage (so to speak) by making Nanjiani’s onscreen character an Uber driver. And when your real-life romance has...
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