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“If we don’t do it, who else is going to do it?” Ansari asks. and raise children who would one day grow up to be great successes - or perhaps video-game obsessed underacheivers. In “Master of None,” brilliantly executed flashbacks in one episode chronicle what Dev’s parents had to go through to immigrate to the U.S.
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“But those characters are really important to me because every time I see Indian parents portrayed on film or TV they’re not three-dimensional, they’re excuses for hacky ethnic jokes,” Ansari says. “Now my parents play parents, so I guess that adds to that a little bit. “My dad wanted to be in something I did, like ‘Parks,’” says Ansari of his father, who in real life is a gastroenterologist. He attended New York University, where he graduated as a business major in 2004, and also did stand-up, becoming part of the MTV sketch comedy show “Human Giant.” He says his father’s well-timed sense of humor inspired at least part of his career path. It’s like we have to make something now where they’re still giving everyone this freedom of letting people make creative stuff.”Īnsari was born in Columbia, S.C., after his parents came to the U.S. “Someone’s going to really that up soon by making something horrible. “We’re in a time when people like myself can get someone like Netflix to make a show for like 10 episodes that’s going to go away soon,” Ansari says. That same principle applies to the oddball “Master of None.”
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Netflix has been behind a series of unconventional and original productions, including “Beasts of No Nation” and the Emmy-winning hit “Orange Is the New Black.” It’s unlikely these works would have seen the light of day a decade ago. As I finished ‘Parks,’ I talked to my friend Alan, who I did the show with, and was like ‘Let’s make a cool show that we shoot in New York.
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“I had been kind of frustrated in acting because I hadn’t really found anything that represented my comedic voice,” says Ansari, who’s had roles in films such as “I Love You” and “Get Him to the Greek.” “I like all the things I’ve acted in, like ‘Parks’ ‘Funny People.’ But I wanted to do something where I played a lead character. “Master of None” is also one of Ansari’s first real leading roles in a major production beyond his own stand-up comedy specials. But to have this kind of conversation about race that I have in the show, I’ve never had a chance to do that.” “I feel like when you do that kind of humor, you tend to end up doing these kind of hack stereotype jokes. “It’s funny because I made a clear choice in my stand-up not to make it about ‘Here’s what it’s like to be an Indian guy, here’s what it’s like to be a white guy,’” says Ansari, who has three Netflix-exclusive stand-up specials to his name, the last being at Madison Square Garden. Now, at least for the moment, Ansari is the unlikely poster boy for South Asian equal opportunity in TV and film. Ironically, in “Master of None,” there is an entire episode (“Indians on TV”) dedicated to the racism Dev faces when trying out for parts. Ansari said he once refused to do an Indian accent in an audition for “Transformers.” He had spoken about the incident before, but a blogosphere now obsessed with racial tension made it a thing recently. It was done as me a comedian, not me as an Indian guy.”īut that dynamic changed when Ansari recently commented during an interview about the limited roles for Indians on TV. Any movies stuff or TV stuff I’ve acted in has not been ethnicity dependent. “My character in ‘Parks’ was not a role that was purely based on an ethnic stereotype.
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“I have to give credit to the people who put me in those other parts,” Ansari says on speakerphone from his car while heading to an interview at a New York radio station. From his TV role as the cocky Haverford in “Parks and Rec” to the annoyingly desperate comic Randy in Judd Apatow’s “Funny People” to his satirical book on dating, 2015’s “Modern Romance: An Investigation,” he’s largely avoided the stereotypical roles reserved for actors who look like him (cab driver, 7-Eleven clerk, IT nerd). Yet the South Carolina native hasn’t made a career of lampooning his ethnicity. But, yeah, I’m Indian and I’m an actor, so there’s definitely that.” Take ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm,’ Chris Rock in ‘Top 5' or Amy Schumer in ‘Trainwreck.’ There’s overlap there too. “Observations are based on things that really happened to you. “There is some overlap with real life,” admits the stand-up comedian. That’s right, Ansari cast his own father and mother, Shoukath and Fatima Ansari, in the role of Dev’s parents.