on larry dignan danny beauty i'm always interested in kind of like doing things that i think that scare me and where there's a poor a potential to fail so directing offers that and i think it's it's a new place for me and i think also for people of color and i think for diverse storytellers more than ever now i think it's we have to tolerate stories you are have to be in and i have polish i was raised polish i was even people you know love to talk in my pants and i was listening to my elders and i was speaking polish and that was my life and i didn't people see me that's what they expect they expect me to be sanjay you know timid very good at science i'm not great at science name is and when i walk up to people i tell them that my childhood wasn't spent being

assigned to spend being a danny. and singing christmas carols plus strangers family encounter one time i was in a bathroom and a man said oh i did and he shook my hand but he was out here and i said don't worry i haven't touched my penis yet all next on larry king now. well the no larry king now and we welcome back to the show the actor and director danny pudi known for his roles in captain america star trek beyond and of course community danny's stars in the tiger hunter about an indian man who immigrated to america and lenses voice to the duck tales that's a reboot as huey the tiger honduras in theaters september twenty second ducktails premier september twenty third on disney x.d. busy busy busy. to get time to time what is tiger hunter up so

the title hunter is the story of this young man who journeys from india to chicago in the one nine hundred seventy s. to pursue his dream of becoming this like great engineer but things don't really work out when he gets here his job falls through thankfully he meets this great group of guys who are all pursuing their own american dream and they're all dressed in superfly seventy's clothing and they help him figure out how to maneuver in this new country as well as redefining his own definition of success is that a little bit about you. i think it is i mean i think i related to the story right away because i'm from chicago my dad immigrated from india to chicago in the seventy's i drive a scooter just like the lead character in the tiger hunter i love seventy's clothing and so there's definitely some things i can relate to there what is meant by the title so the tiger hunter is a reference to the lead character sammy's father who's this sort of legendary tiger hunter in his village in india oh yeah and he thinks he's this legend and when

sammy comes to america he has to sort of figure out his own place and how to i guess distinguish himself from his father's there's a little reference there to the story. i think and the star about kicking him out is an incredible actor it's really about my journey trying to figure out who i am as opposed to my father and the same time i'm trying to really impress my childhood crush this girl ruby who lives in india and i have all these expectations my family is putting all these expectations on me to succeed in america and and i have this sort of legacy of my father who's passed away some trying to really kind of prove myself today for showing role yeah i think i was. excited in many ways when this came about because of the tiger has written by lena kahn who is a female in the in american writer and director and when i read the script it really resonated with me because it. parallels my family story in many ways both my parents immigrated to chicago in the seventy's and they struggled and had to figure

things out so right away i was like this is like telling my family story and at the same time i had never been given a chance to work on a lead role that had elements of comedy and drama and i had to be on set every single day and that to me was a really exciting challenge we shot three weeks in l.a. one week in india was pretty cool as my first time in india didn't shoot regard will we had to fake chicago l.a. has some streets that. kin look very much like chicago and i was sort of trying to contribute as our on sat like chicago expert will now take a look at a clip from the tiger hunter. not long before he passed my father took out his polished rifle his hunting jacket in nearly everything else that made him who he was and sold them all so i could go to the best british school in india. how can i ever live up to

a man like that listen to some. i got you must be i. must know how he feels how he seeks. and you want to. have hot if i become to. do manhunts it's. you are have to be in and have polish kind of weird. your mother was polish my vote was polish my father's in the inside the one where you were raised as a polish catholic i was an altar boy i. was raised in chicago

your father wasn't really part of your life he was it he was initially he is now and in some ways we've kind of reconnected after the tiger on our actually which has been cool but early on i was raised polish i was even p. dog potatoes. let's see what else was i do and i was talking my pants and i was listening to my elders and i was speaking polish and that was my life as my left chicago who's the tiger hundred made you feel more connected to your indian heritage yeah i think as i think i've been one of the cool things about tiger honor is that it really connected me more with both my parents actually i talked to my mom and my dad a lot about the film and their moment in the film especially the beginning because the beginning part of the film actually in india and we shot that part and i had to say goodbye to my mom character in india and it was a very heart warming scene it was tough and i asked my mom about that was that like for her what when she left poland what was it like because she came along too and it was like for her to say goodbye to her parents and her family and she talked

about how hard it was because she didn't know she's going to see them again so. it was interesting being able to connect with them in a different way. really talk about coming to america they kind of keep that stuff to themselves they mostly just yell at me it was about this way to sort of connect with them in that way in two thousand and eleven you said i've played one raj for songes. bed. and that was a good one but we still put you in a box yeah i think you know there has been a lot of sanjay's a lot of rajahs i think people see me that's what they expect they expect me to be sanjay you know timid very good at science i'm not great at science and then there's a group it's not good it's beauty but it's also danny. my sort of experience has been completely different when i walk up to people i tell them that my childhood wasn't spent being assigned a will spend being a danny. and singing christmas carols so that to me is like that's also weird i get it but it's not it's not what people expect. but i've been lucky i've been playing

characters lately whose names have been teddy. teddy i play a huey i'm going to ask about immigration which pretty divisive talk to give america do you think the movie will strike a chord with people and i hope so i think you know it's interesting we shot this film a couple years ago and the climb a little different and so it's been interesting seeing the film kind of groll what took so long for this film has been really a grassroots indie film the cool thing about this film is that it is has a bunch of diversity behind the camera and it's one of the camera but also made a really difficult to kind of sell and so she had to really work hard we got a lot of support from film festivals like elie asian pacific from festival camp and sort it's kind of gained momentum over time and i think a lot of is because of the immigration situation in our country and i think. i think lost in all that is the humanity the people you know the struggle of these people and i think this story is just kind of one story about

a guy who does crazy things for love who is trying to figure out how to define himself in this country and it's also sad the seventy's when you know we welcomed a lot of these people to our country you know and they contributed in many ways so i hope people can relate to that can't wait to see it thank you their tails is coming back after twenty five years where you will fan as a kid yes big fan it was part of the disney afternoon so it was a great place to avoid any dogs or it was it was normal virgona drew oh yeah so you know where the nephews he was doing and louis hubert the oldest by one second there was also a launchpad maclachlan. and of course uncle scrooge you know great don't have a wife. i don't know many of the backstory we don't really ask many questions as kids when i was watching it like the first episode aired september one thousand nine hundred eighty seven where you from where. i was in chicago

probably holding a blanket i blinked. i was probably either getting ready to cry or just finishing some crying you are doing voice overs i love it a lot of it i don't think it was possible as i was kind of doing voices in my family is like your face is perfect for voiceover. ben schwartz and bobby moore are in this as well right yeah it's awesome cast recording with them or individually we started to record together a bunch of words and i actually did a few sessions together but i think we took too much time and distracted each other too much so then they separated us but it's been really cool we kind of just show up each of us does our lives they'll play other people's voices in your ear it's going to be on every week yes a little beyond disney x.d. produce they were going in there where you didn't yeah we're we finished season one one season two it's really funny frank i'm going to. young birds are awesome script super funny the cast is awesome kate makushi is webby did tap into scrooge mcduck.

donald is the same person whose voice donald forever so he's kind of our legacy oh he's got that famous voice yeah knowing the name is tony and probably have to correct me but i think it's tony i as your costar ben schwartz how he got into the mind of a duck how did you get into the mind of you we so i have some neighbors down the street and they have these plastic ducks on their front lawn and so i walk by their house and i usually just lay next to them and i just kind of burrow next to him and i will do that i do and then i'll just kind of practice getting into the mind of duck which starts with being the duck so you're you know your nose up to the dog and you're like well i want one my my my my my. my my my right here all your good. work. what do you do words. can't really do word it's all stuck in this little pocket in

my mouth what does the script look like it's really funny and it's all real words. it is record so we have to speak english i can really do the voice when i first learned audition i was like is this like do i have to be like doing duck voices and they were going to just your real voice so the thing about this show that is a little different is that each of the triplets has their own kind of identity which is cool and it's really us just kind of age couple who came up with the idea is to reboot it why there's a lot of reboot snow there so everyone's rebooting i think there's no style just you know i the kids right now too so this is like super exciting for me because i get to force my interest onto them which is good and i think it's appealing to people like that who grew up with it or not who now have kids and want to share some of their childhood with them the new version is sort of like indiana jones meets modern family it's got this great sort of adult comedic feel to it as well as kind of the original spirit of the cartoons unless you were just directed the e.s.p.n. thirty for thirty those about the market basketball team right yeah it was untucked

it was about basketball jerseys which i love also seventy's era which i'm obsessed with i love seventies clothing and i'm a huge basketball fan markets where i went to and they have this great legacy of just kind of like you know free flowing fashion al mcguire was at the time. he won the national championship when you were there no i wish it was seventy seven that was but they were wearing the uniform that this player but well us help design and he created this design which was wearing jerseys that are specifically made to be on tucked you know and then eventually the n.c. double a is like you got a tuck your shirt is in college my mom she's always somebody took my shirt and you know it's a famous catholic school it isn't catholic school my whole life for you to clubs it was so white sox baby what's the good good they're going to one of them system in the league right now the young good young player yeah it's tough being a white sox fan right now it's going to pay off up next best problems we're jobs and polish to us and. with danny booty will be right back. it's.

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the falling down every lead no idea how to classify and it actually took me way more time than i care to admit. we danny pudi the tiger hunter will be. that guy over there is or will be in theaters. going to duck tales to premier the next day on disney x.d. you'll be hearing a lot danny pudi september twenty second and september twenty third is a person of color how did you react to charlottesville. you know i feel sad about just the current state of things i think you know any time people right now feel emboldened to to hate or to use fear as a tool it's scares me scary for my family and all the people. who are living in communities where they're under-represented or are not seen as part of the majority as a minority it definitely hurt it feels kind of scary right now but the same time i'm

hopeful that we can all kind of unite and really kind of stand up for ourselves more have you spoken out publicly in the past i have you know i'm kind of it a i'm not really sort of a very politically savvy person i'm not you know i tend to sort of like being an actor and family person and kind of staying in my life but i think one of the things that's happened over the last couple years is you really have to speak up especially because it's good for people to see people who are visible saying going to direction more i hope so i hope so. you know i'm always interested in kind of like doing things that are that that scare me and where there's a great potential to fail so directing offers that i think it's it's a new place for me i do i think doing the yes being there but there sure it was completely new to me and i learned a lot and it was really exciting to be part of a story and help tell a story and i think also for people of color and i think for a diverse storytellers more than ever now i think it's we have to tolerate stories

. yes great training amazing training super scary training legends like perform there you're walking on a stage where chris farley was doing berman and berman i mean my teacher had a gelman in this guy timo malley who are like just legends within second city and you know just seeing where tina fey's team called where all these great performers started and performed it can't help but inspire you every day to show up and it's it's proof that you could show up on a stage with nothing as long as you have people around you that you trust and believe in other and you can create something amazing oh we play a little game of if you only knew ok who was your childhood celebrity crush man alyssa milano. i want to get out. i speak polish and i can. make this like really weird noise in my fingers i mean here. i mean there's something in polish. what does

a mean like cucumber. who's a person you would trade places with for a day you. would be amazing his job you've ever had was that i was a hotdog stand i was a assistant at a hotdog stand chicago yeah they wouldn't let me with all the responsibility i had to hold like the sesame seed buns and. and you put the dog in the book it was not i was not allowed to. board i was lowly. guilty pleasure watching the bachelorette could do an impression of me do you do impressions i don't do impressions ok but. best compliment you ever got i mean you're more accessible than i thought let's see here what else all you have. all you have abnormally large irises. really i don't knows. what never

fails to make you laugh. when someone passes gas in ways that don't put anybody children animals doesn't matter some do you wish you were better at. play an instrument they would be wonderful. also like lifting heavy objects but would you speak fluent polish it's pretty good i'm a little rusty you could you go to poland have conversations with people i could i think i made might listen nuance and stuff but i could definitely you know have a conversation order have you been to poland multiple times yeah i've been there maybe ten times what's warsaw like it's different change so much mongol is in warsaw is professor there and it's changed so much since the first time i went there when first i went there i didn't see any diversity it was just after the berlin wall came down and now it's just like very cosmopolitan new clubs new restaurants it's totally different all the warsaw ghetto yeah and krakow to amazing

biggest per good being a celebrity free coffee sometimes not all the time strangers fan encounter one time as in a bathroom and a man said oh i and he shook my hand but he was at a urinal he said don't worry i don't touch my penis yet. that's a funny thing. told me something people don't know about you people don't know about me let's see here. i cried really hard when i saw revolutionary road and i had to wait until the entire theater cleared because i was broken down it was a great movie great movie but it was just hit me in a weird way they were joy luck club that was really one from a rough one for revolutionary road revolution over her age and wars and i think yeah and i think coming from a family with divorce and all that it was like one of those films where you walk in thinking like let's go to have some popcorn then you walk i'll be like god was meet me larry. some social media questions ek

i films danny in winter soldier jim risch and civil war donald glover in superman homecoming is the infinity war and undercover community movie. i think we owe that to the russo brothers and marvel but the risk of others of darker movies and planting as many community people in some of these films i'm not involved in what's going on right now but i can't confirm or deny that somebody else isn't but you know out in winter soldier where i am in one of them with their winter soldier you don't know view in a movie i think i was you think. it's not true or they say about polish people the . game of brooklyn what's your favorite book my favorite book. really good question my favorite book of all time the book i've returned to the most is probably the line which in the wardrobe c.s. lewis chile town to me twenty three what was it like going to notre dame high school in the isles illinois danny he said danny gave the commencement speech there

in two thousand and thirteen i did i think my speech was about embracing or in a weird. sort of you know i think it was an incredible experience i some i still have my son my best friends are from that experience all boys high school so it definitely not prepare me for speaking to women. just outside chicago northwest side and at the same time it was just a wonderful experience very tight knit group of friends got to see a lot i got to play football for two weeks before i broke my collarbone i got to do everything was great. how was working on the smurfs movie is amazing this is mostly is my first actual voiceover project and so i got worse nerve i was brainy smart. you do those voices pretty good banks thanks larry it was fun. nabj the flu for if you were to what do you think you do pursued if i was an actor what i would have pursued i think about this sometimes i. really in sports i think something the

sports field my first dream job was. a sports broadcaster i really want to be like marchand greco this legendary chicago sports guy. being around athletes being around sporting general of the chicago bulls yes yes i want to give it all up i could do it jay good man dude playing are bad for the any moments where you folded betted to improvise ready to do was on the page. you know the writing for a community was so brilliant and harmon's world is so specific that it felt improvised everything felt so spontaneous because it was so purely our characters you know in the pilot when we were working out one scene there's one scene we're kind of all going around the table arguing as our first sort of argument scene where each character comes in at different points and they had us all improvised there for all of us so i improvise a lot there in the pilot just to kind of like get a sense of what my character would talk about it was a lot of me just basically quoting lines from breakfast club and saying you know

dad what about you what about you do. you know most what was your favorite thing about working with the cast of community they're truly like my family i think for me it was such a huge leap in my career was my first real. you know acting job that. kind of in capsule of everything i ever wanted to do i always dreamed of being on a sitcom i always dreamed of being in an incredible and sambal on a show that was like funny playing a character that wasn't a sidekick really that was offered some chances to be his own hero and in the group of us all kind of like came together we went through a lot of crazy times larry but we also had some great times together and we're still super tight and i think sitting around the table between scenes was the most entertaining fun time and i treasure those memories joel mchale great in the best

is about. me by my first. really. dies xombi scum says name a as one of the actual chances of getting the community movie the fans really want you know i actually think they're better than they've been in a long time i think there's been some some murmurs going around lately i think dan's even mentioned something lately that he's started to think about it so i'm in and i think all of us too are very excited about it you miss it yeah i mean i miss those people i miss working in an environment where the news own six years we did six years are you still close who don't will go over yeah i think just because of what we went through and and all the tags and everything we're basically brothers what do you make of his musical success it's amazing i remember sitting in his car in the parking lot of paramount when he was starting to go down the childish gambino path and he was playing me if song like an early cut of the song called heartbeat and he's like what you think about this. and now like oh my god it's dog

lover so it's it's been incredible but i think he's so talented i believed in him you grew up as a dancer yes a good were you not good enough larry. if. i could dance i mean that was my first love and terms of the stage and it still is like when i think about like what brings me the most joy get to dance i do i mean mostly like weddings do a lot of like i do this worm dance where i'd like jump on the ground i phones like i was going to the war but i just pretend i hurt myself and injure and i'm injured and i got to do this thing. a little bit but i love dancing i love dancing with people i feel like it's such a pure form of expression that i love it. so i make and love said to music yeah yeah what else do you have in the pipeline so my kids are starting kindergarten which is really exciting. in terms of projects you have got tighter hundred coming out i got ducktails coming out which is go. super fun for my friends

that i grew up with watching it and people have kids right now so i feel like it's something you know kids is going to go yeah and i have twins i have a twin boy and girl they're awesome keep me on my toes ask a lot of questions ready. i think they are am i. thanks so i guess the tiger hunters unclear on the twenty second and duck tales three years on disney x.d. september twenty third is all those can find me on twitter at kings things i'll see you next on. our culture is awash in lives dominated by streams of never ending electronic

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