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You may know Aziz Ansari best as the man who taught you to “treat yo’ self” over the course of seven seasons on "Parks And Recreation," but he also won multiple Emmys for "Master Of None," the brilliant show that spent three seasons on the Netflix schedule between 2015 and 2021. "Master Of None" was both a critical and commercial success, marking a turning point in Ansari’s career as the industry began to take him more seriously as a writer. Now he’s moving into the world of features with his upcoming film "Good Fortune."
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00:00Well, you're right. There's definitely some DNA of MasterNone in this with the stuff with me and my dad. And,
00:06you know, there was an episode we did called I Love New York where we followed people like there was
00:13a taxi driver, a doorman, and a woman who was deaf.
00:16And in this, it's kind of like, oh, you're kind of going into a different world with Arj, a guy
00:20who's, you know, working at a hardware heaven, Home Depot type store and doing this kind of task rabbit kind
00:26of thing.
00:26So there's kind of this kind of putting yourself in other people's shoes element. I mean, what was different is
00:31obviously the whole angel thing and having Keanu's character and this kind of, you know, there were times when Alan
00:36Yang, who created MasterNone with me, we were talking about the script in early stages and they're like, should we
00:41do the whole angel thing?
00:42And we always were like, no, we have to do the angel thing because that's what's different. And that's what
00:46makes it a different swing than MasterNone. And it kind of makes it a little more fun and exciting.
00:51So that whole element. And obviously Keanu Reeves was never in MasterNone. But you want to know a fun factoid
01:02that I just realized is in that episode where I was talking about, about there's a cab drivers and the
01:10cab drivers are talking about whether they ever picked up any famous passengers.
01:14And one guy says, I picked up Keanu Reeves. And the other guys are like, no way you didn't. He
01:19probably takes Uber. And, and then this movie has Keanu Reeves. Who would have known?
01:24Dude, I thought about that.
01:26Really? You caught that? I didn't think about that till way later. Like after I remembered that. And I'm like,
01:31that's so weird. That's like a, you know.
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