Typecasting is something that many actors have to deal with. Once they find a level of success in a certain place, it’s far from uncommon for similar roles to become the only thing they get offered. It tends to be even worse for actors of color, but Kumail Nanjiani is one who has found a certain amount of success keeping himself out of only playing one sort of role, in part because he specifically goes looking for jobs that he would find difficult.
Kumail Nanjiani had something of a breakout role on HBO’s Silicon Valley where the Pakistani-American played a role you might expect from one of his background, as a programmer for a tech startup. Since then, however, while he frequently made comedies, he has been able to play roles in serious dramas and he’s even become part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But Nanjiani tells the L.A. Times he knows how easy it is to be “put into a box.” He explained…
