![]() A big part of our culture is respecting the elders and never going against your parents is part of that. So we don't have this thing of, like, you rebel against your parents. When the oldest son grows up, the parents move in with the oldest son, and then they live with their grandkids and their sons and those ties never get severed. ![]() ![]() We don't really have that in Pakistan, at least my family and my extended family did not. You sort of find yourself in some ways by rebelling against your parents, and that's sort of built into the story of growing up. Nanjiani: This is a generalization, but there is sort of a rebellion narrative for kids here. On the American narrative of rebelling against your parents Gordon: We thought we could skip the line, because we had just gotten married, but no. And then we went and got brunch, stood in line - it was a Saturday, so, you know, it was a 40-minute wait. We walked into City Hall in Chicago with four or five of our closest friends and we got married. But if you add up all these so-called rational decisions we'd made within three months of this, it maybe amounts to a fever haze because we had both quit our jobs, we had gotten married and we had moved to New York within three months of this event. Nanjiani: It didn't seem like a fever haze at the time, it seemed like a very rational decision. We're getting married," in kind of this fever haze just a few months after I got out of the hospital. Gordon: We were just like, "Yeah, that's it. Nanjiani: We never got engaged, we just got married. There was no moment that he proposed to me, as much as we just talked about it and we're like, "We're getting married." Gordon: We got married three months after I got out of the hospital. On how Gordon's coma changed their relationship I could definitely hear them - not the entire time, but I could hear them. I didn't really have a sense of time so much, but my brain was trying to make sense of things. Gordon: Which, to me, I thought was only like a day or two long. Nanjiani: It was like this extended dream you were having. I thought Kumail was in a hospital and I was visiting him, so I clearly had some level of awareness of what was happening. I constructed an elaborate back story for my plight that involved Kumail being sick. I could kind of hear snatches of what they were saying. Gordon: I was very well aware that both Kumail and my parents were there in the room with me. Nanjiani: We would talk to her all the time. We would keep her updated and tell her what was happening in the news and what was happening with, like, celebrity gossip and stuff. So we would talk to her pretty often, her parents and I. Nanjiani: Yeah, the nurse actually really encouraged us to talk to her because they said that she could hear. On how Nanjiani talked to Gordon while she was in the coma "And we knew that we didn't want to disrespect what actually happened and the seriousness of being in a medically induced coma." ![]() we knew the emotional truth of what happened," she says. Though their story ended happily, Gordon (played in the film by Zoe Kazan) says both she and Nanjiani were careful about "not writing anything that felt disrespectful or off-base or off-color" for the screen adaptation of their story. Gordon did come out of the coma, and she and Nanjiani married three months later. I remember seeing her laying there in the coma for the first time and I remember having the thought, If she comes out of this, I'm going to marry her." "This sounds like a movie moment, but it really, really isn't. Nanjiani, who plays himself in the film, says the days Gordon spent in a coma were pivotal to their relationship. The role of Gordon is played by Zoe Kazan. Nanjiani, who also appears in HBO's Silicon Valley, stars as himself in The Big Sick. ![]()
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