'Big Sick' Creators Nanjiani And Gordon On Turning Their Courtship Into A Movie
In Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Gordon's new rom-com, girl meets boy, girl contracts a mysterious illness and boy's Pakistani parents struggle to accept the relationship.
On the surface, comedian Kumail Nanjiani's new movie, The Big Sick, sounds like a rom-com: He plays a struggling stand-up comedian, also named Kumail, who meets a cute girl, Emily, at one of his shows. Sparks fly and they start dating. But then she finds out he's been keeping her a secret from his Pakistani family; there's a huge fight and they break up. But that's just the beginning.
Nanjiani wrote the movie with his wife, Emily Gordon, and they based it on their actual relationship. It's called because Gordon fell ill and needed to be put into
