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You're a Tony nominee. How does it feel
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It feels like a dream. I really, I don't always put a lot of stock in all of these things
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but I can't lie. Like, when I heard, I was just so happy
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It's like a lifetime of dreaming and thinking, and now it's, now I'm like a Tony nominee forever
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So what's made this place so special for you? I feel like this part of what made it so special doing it on Broadway is I feel like from
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from like the general smart New York going public to like the you know South Asian man who came from
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Ohio and gave it a go everyone has everyone has come on and said they felt broken open and moved
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and understood something about either someone else or themselves. It was received with so much love and so much I don know space and so much just delicacy that it felt like I could have done that play forever It felt like there was like something transpiring between us and the
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audience. You know, it was entertaining. It was poignant, but also made people think. And like
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you said, see themselves in this too. Isn't that great when art or a play does that? It's the dream
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I mean, you, you want to be moved and you want to laugh and you don't want to be like taught a
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lesson. You just want to experience something and learn something about yourself without anyone
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hammering it over the head. Or that's the kind of art that I'm always like both hoping to see and
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hoping to be a part of. And it's, you know, like so often you go see something and be like, I wish
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I was in that. And it's so rare to be in the thing that you're like, actually, I'm so happy being in
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the thing I'm in. So when they pinned you today, do you remember what you were thinking
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I just, the whole thing has been really deeply moving to me
