the best or nothing. >>> now to an unusual rom com that is getting a lot of love from critics.dian who grew up in pakistan, and it tells the true story of his courtship and marriage to an american woman. here's abc's nick watt. >> i know, you guys said you don't need me to stay, but i think i'm just going to wait anyway. >> you guys broke up. i'm not sure why you're here. >> reporter: the big sick" is a rom com, a true story following a pakistani immigrant and struggling stand-up whose kind of ex cross-cultural girlfriend is in a coma. >> it's based on real stuff that happened know and my wife emily. >> reporter: xhul nanjiani stars and wrote the script with his sickly ex-girlfriend, now healthy wife. >> why did the real emily not appear in the film? >> she's not an actress. >> i have to tell you spg something. i've been dating this girl. she's white. >> a white girl? >> you can't look like you're -- >> it's okay. we hate terrorists. >> reporter: this is brought to you by producers judd apatow and barry mendel, who previously produced "bridesmaids" and "trainwre "trainwreck." >

it is a rom com by definition.y firmly wanted to be in that jo genre and that really is and that gives us permission to discuss stuff that's much more serious but always in that conta conta conte context. >> you like comedy as an actor in. >> yes, it is really fun. >> i have been away from it in movies for a while. it is really fun. >> i ask that -- what was about this script that pulls you back? >> the pedigree of this movie is fabulous starting with camel and patel and mike showalter it is fill filled with incredible comedy stand up who understands what's funny. >> there is something about the movie that there were experiences that i don't know about, that i wanted to know about. and the movies is a bit of an expert because it is an inside track. it is told from the inside. >> uh-huh. >> from kamil and emily's point of views. i was very attracted to that. >> a quick comment and a question. the comic, i read in a number of place, i know you will never say this because you are too modest. i am told it was terribly

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bay in the last week is or with your upcoming dating book what are your thoughts on script to go rom com i'd like to see something funny and true without the usual cliches you think you could work wonders why the second movie i ever sold with imagine which is brian grazer ron howard's company and i sold universal is a movie called no hearts club and it's a romantic comedy about a gentleman who doesn't have the ability to fall in love and it follows the idea of this person trying to figure out if he's capable of doing it and how he can break free and do those things and does he meet a girl. it hasn't come out yet it has a nice thing i like about it is it exactly what they said the beats of it actually to what i believe would happen in real life and the ending of it would actually well i have a question for you you've been in broadcasting for sixty years sixty sixty six zero years. you doing this show and continuing to work every day believe you or three days a week or four days a week still for a four days a week still do you find it a necessity is there of course there's join it but is t

thank you. >> this is a different kind of rom-com, based on your life.nths, and she fell into a coma. just a light coma. >> a light coma. >> like eight days. in and out. like a trip to europe. i hung out with her parents for eight days and i got to know pem. and the lovely zoe plays my wife. the movie -- we meet. she goes to europe. and then, she wakes up. >> she goes to europe. >> you -- zoe, you play his wife. but his wife, kumail's wife co-wrote this thing. she's in the room when you're tapi taping this. is it weird having the person you are playing, in the room? >> as you make out with her actual husband. >> it wasn't in the script. it's like, why is this happening? >> we're just standing -- >> just improv? >> yeah. >> was that a little weird? >> the weirdest thing about it was that it felt really normal, which is probably not a great sign about my psychology. really, emily is a remarkable person. when i met her, i fell in love with her. i fell more in love with emily than i did with kumail. which is convenient for you. >> no, i kiss him that way. >>

how this bittersweet tale of bridging the cultural divide may be the rom-com of the year. he rom come of the year. a blend of sea kelp, aloe and antioxidants that help bring your hair back to life. new herbal essences. let life in. [female narrator] foods rich in folic acid like white bread and leafy greens can help prevent some birth defects before you even know you're pregnant. >>> a romantic comedy hitting theaters this weekend getting a lot of love from critics. >> it involves a man from pakistan and his real-live romance with an american woman. we're up all nightline with abc's nick watt. >> i know you said you don't need me to stay, but i think i'm just going to wait anyway. >> you guys broke up. i'm not sure why you're here. >> reporter: the big sick is a true story following a pakistani and a cross cultural girl friend who's in a coma. >> it's real life stuff that happened to me and my wife emily. >> reporter: he wrote the script with his sickly ex-girlfriend, now his real life wife. >> reporter: why did the real emily not appear in the film? >> she's not an actress

we stars in the new rom-com, "the big sick," getting a lot of buzz. >> the film was based on the writer'sg with her parents. >> you really don't have to stay. you've already done -- >> i'm just going to stay for a second. is this seat -- okay. is that lady still looking at me? >> holly, nice to have you here! >> it's so great to be here. >> we have had your cast here. it's such a terrific story. such a terrific cast. what was it that attracted you to the script when you read it? >> you one -- it is from the top down. the producers have such impeccable taste. they are so smart. their movies are genuinely kind of originally funny. so that immediately got my attention. then i read the script. the script is like an inside track. it's such a private story that you -- you couldn't make it up. and then, it's just so funny. i mean -- >> that's the thing. it's such a heavy story line, when you think about everything involved with the coma and everything, but it's really funny. how did you balance that? >> it was so interesting because we're going to -- we had all these hospital scenes. and then, l