“Oh, this is such a blast from the past. This is A Room with a View, and it’s a Merchant Ivory film, which, if you’re Indian and you were around in the ’80s and the ’90s, Ismail Merchant was so huge for us because he was one of the people we could look to as really making it in the business and being successful, and, for someone like me, that was so meaningful. But it was also one of those movies where… I think up until then my favorite movie was, like, Sister Act 2, and this was, like, a grown-up movie. And there’s actually a very grown-up scene in the movie people who know the movie will know, which is Julian Sands and another actor are running fully naked around a pond in this joyous scene, and I don’t think I’d ever seen a man’s penis before that, so I’m going to say that was very imprinted on me as well.”
