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Jun 22, 2017 · June 22, 2017. Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon Jordan Strauss/AP Images. The comedian Kumail Nanjiani was a teenager in his native Pakistan when he first fell madly, deeply in love...
- Julia Felsenthal
- Emily Heckles Kumail at A Bar
- Emily Is Diagnosed with Still’s Disease
- Kumail & Emily Get Married
- Kumail & Emily Start Writing
- Kumail & Emily Keep Working
- Kumail & Emily Take on The Chippendales
According to a 2017 New Yorker profile, the couple first metat one of Nanjiani’s standup gigs in Chicago, where he was lovingly heckled by Gordon at the bar. Rather than get offended at the gesture, the two became friends after running into each other again two nights later. The couple began seeing each other on and off. However, it didn’t fully tu...
Eight months into their on-and-off situation, Gordon informed Nanjiani that she was going to the doctor one day. That night, as reported by The New Yorker, he got a call saying Gordon was in the emergency room and having trouble breathing. In order to treat what the doctors detected was a lung infection, they put her in a medically induced coma, wh...
While Gordon was in a coma, Nanjiani promised himself that he would marry her if she made it through, as he told NPR in July 2017. “This sounds like a movie moment, but it really, really isn’t,” he explained. “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...
The Big Sick came about when Nanjiani met Judd Apatow in 2012 at a live taping of Pete Holmes’ podcast You Made It Weird at Austin’s SXSW Festival. “Judd called my manager and was like, ‘Hey, does Kumail have any ideas?’” he recalled to The Daily Beast in 2017. “So I went and met Judd at 7 a.m. out in Santa Monica, and I told him some ideas and the...
In 2020, the spouses premiered their Apple TV+ series Little America, on which they served as both writers and executive producers. The eight-episode series (which returns for season 2 in December) depicts different American stories. “That was very important to us: Find different versions of the immigrant experience,” Nanjiani told The New York Tim...
Nanjiani and Gordon celebrated their 15th wedding anniversary in August 2022, which didn’t turn out the way he planned. As Nanjiani told Jimmy Kimmel Live!, they had agreed to not get each other gifts due to their busy schedule, but a mutual friend then told him she broke the rules. “So I start spiraling, because I haven’t bought a gift and I’m a m...
- Jake Viswanath
Jul 12, 2017 · Comic Kumail Nanjiani remembers the first time he thought of marrying then-girlfriend Emily V. Gordon: when he saw her in a coma. Now the couple has co-written a romantic comedy based on...
- Terry Gross
Nov 22, 2017 · The “real” Emily is named Emily V. Gordon, and she and Nanjiani wrote the script for The Big Sick together, loosely extrapolating its story from their own life.
Jun 23, 2017 · Emily V. Gordon was still just dating Kumail Nanjiani when she came down with a bug so bad that the doctors had to put her into a coma just to keep her alive. This is the big sick of The Big Sick ...
- A.A. Dowd
Jul 14, 2017 · It’s what happened. And the movie feels to us emotionally how it felt to go through that,” said Nanjiani. While some scenes in the movie -- like the story of how they met -- are based on actual events, there are some subtle differences. Gordon’s parents are both from North Carolina.
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Feb 16, 2018 · How A Medically Induced Coma Led To Love, Marriage And The Oscar-Nominated 'Big Sick' Comic Kumail Nanjiani didn't think of marrying then-girlfriend Emily V. Gordon until he saw her in a...
