Kumail Nanjiani and Annaleigh Ashford Find Levity in the Darkness of ‘Welcome to Chippendales’

TheWrap magazine: The costars snagged two of the five surprise nominations for Hulu’s limited series about the founder of the famous male strip club

Welcome to Chippendales
Annaleigh Ashford and Kumail Nanjiani in "Welcome to Chippendales" (Credit: Hulu)

This story about “Welcome to Chippendales” stars Kumail Nanjiani and Annaleigh Ashford first appeared in the Down to the Wire: Drama and Limited Series issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine. All actor interviews in that issue were conducted before the SAG-AFTRA strike began.

All four main cast members of a limited series about the rise and fall of a male strip club mogul were nominated for Emmys, making “Welcome to Chippendales” one of the big shocks of this year’s noms. Kumail Nanjiani and Annaleigh Ashford tell us how they did it.

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"Welcome to Chippendales" (Hulu)
Kumail Nanjiani in “Welcome to Chippendales” (Hulu)

Kumail Nanjiani’s lead actor Emmy nomination for Hulu’s “Welcome to Chippendales” took him completely by surprise, much as his first nomination did in 2019 when he was recognized for an episode of Jordan Peele’s “The Twilight Zone” reboot.

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