“Welcome to Chippendale”s Star Kumail Nanjiani Says He’d Never Strip: ‘I Can Barely Get My Clothes On’

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Kumail Nanjiani is drawing the line at becoming a Chippendales dancer.

The Big Sick actor, 45, revealed in an interview with E! News ahead of the Emmy Awards 2023 that despite starring in a series about Chippendales dancers — he wouldn't consider taking on that role in real life.

"No, I’ve never stripped. No, I never did it on the show either." Nanjiani shared, further adding that he "wouldn’t be good at it."

"I can barely get my clothes on and off every day," he admitted. "To make it look sexy is like… I’m an awkward — physically awkward person."

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In the Hulu show Welcome to Chippendales, the 45-year-old actor plays Somen "Steve" Banerjee, an Indian immigrant who founded the male-stripping empire. The series follows Banerjee's legacy, which was shrouded in greed, scandal and murder as a result of the competition spawned from the strip club's instantaneous success throughout the early 1980s.

Nanjiani previously told Vanity Fair of the role: "This is by far the most challenging job I've ever done, in terms of the length of the shoot, the content of the scenes and emotional difficulty of those scenes. It's one of those things where I just jumped in, and trusted that it'd reveal itself as it goes — and it did."

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That's just one of the many projects Nanjiani and his wife Emily V. Gordon have teamed up to produce, along with The Big Sick. However, the pair told E! News that working together can have its own challenges and that to make their projects successful, they must "have a lot of rules."

"That’s the most important thing," Gordon said. "You have to have rules about when you can talk about work and you cannot talk about work in bed. And do your best not to do a face, because apparently I have a face I make at Kumail..."

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"That’s the hardest part about working together," Nanjiani continued. " We know each other's faces so well. Like I say something and I’m like, 'You're making that face...' "

"It's like a mindread thing," he added. "You just have to be— make rules, be careful."

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