Kumail Nanjiani says that women writers are crucial in Hollywood.

“I think the most important thing we can do right now is to listen to women.” Nanjiani explained. “We’ve been talking for f*cking centuries. I think it’s time for us to shut up and listen.”

The comedian’s film “The Big Sick” is based on a true story of how he and his wife, Emily V. Gordon, got together. When he started writing the script, he quickly realized he couldn’t tell the story without Emily.  

“Her perspective as a woman completely changed the movie. There’s a scene in the movie where Emily and I are first dating and she has to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night and so she’s like, trying to leave to go to a diner nearby to use the bathroom. We’ve has so many women point out that scene all the time being like, ‘Oh my God, that is exactly what happened to me.’”

Kumail hates that rom-coms are targeted toward women but are still predominantly written by men.

“It’s a bunch of dudes trying to guess what a woman would do. Well, then get a few women writers in there. Here’s the big thing: having more women writers, more women directors, more women executives, more women in positions of power — you don’t just do that to make a more equal society, you do that because the product will be better.

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