Hasan Minhaj and Kumail Nanjiani discuss the importance of"Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle"

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Hasan Minhaj on the importance of 'Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle' Watch the full conversation here: https://t.co/qANlidIlmf pic.twitter.com/m3FaxfscsZ
- Variety (@Variety) May 26, 2020
-In honor of Asian and Pacific American Heritage month Variety held a discussion with top actors and directors

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[just_for_kicks]

Kumail is talking about Deadpool I’m assuming?

[violet_crumble9]

that's what i was thinking

[sarahvma]

I can't tell if he's saying he got the job or not. Is it possible it was Stuber?

[just_for_kicks]

Oh I totally didn’t read it that way, that he just refused to play up his accent but was in the movie. Was Stuber successful though?

[marywebgirl]

I remember seeing H&K in the theater and thinking it was going to be a huge hit but it got overshadowed by Napoleon Dynamite. At least it seems to have somewhat cult status now.

[mariaaf]

Funny thing is, in my country, when H&K was released my older brother was around 16 and he and his friends were OBSESSED with that movie whereas I didn't hear about Napoleon Dynamite until I was a teen myself and got in Tumblr and all the white girls kept posting about it.

[tippani]

To be fair Napolean Dynamite was PG/PG-13 and had wider appeal compared to H&K which was marketed as a stoner comedy (not even considering the non-white leads). Nowadays everyone my age (late-20s/early 30s) knows at least one H&K movie.

[analievelyn]

John Cho could feed me those nasty burgers and I'd lick the crumbs off his face.

I can't think of another movie where there product placement was so embedded in the story

Didn't the other actor get mugged recently?

[crimps4]

He got mugged back when he was living in DC and working in the White House, I dunno about recently!

[arellaj]

I can't think of another movie where there product placement was so embedded in the story

Oh what about the movie were Natalie Portman lives in and gets married in a Walmart?

[lolita_applebum]

They opened a white castle in the Vegas strip and i finally got to try it and it was so disappointing

[ohmygod13]

I saw Harold and Kumar at the movie theater with my best friend and it was genuinely probably the hardest I had ever laughed in my life. Even in the parking lot after the movie we couldn’t stop laughing.

[irajaxon]

i love harold & kumar go to white castle. it has enough gags to be funny outright, but i'd been living in the US for 3 years when it came out and i had no idea white castle was a real thing, my knowledge of american pop culture was minimal and my english wasn't sharp enough to pick up on everything, so the movie had a high rewatch value for me because every time i saw it i picked up on something new. i like those dumb movies so much.

also, john cho and kal penn were soooo cute.

[xtinkerbellax]

They were really cute.