Tan France’s new TV role shows the “fight” from his “life in front of Queer Eye” (exclusive)

There is a lot of hidden under the surface of the “super positive” Tan -France that the audience cannot normally see.

The Strange eye And Next in fashion The host takes over his first scripting role as a guest star in the New Hulu Comedy series. Deli jung. The show follows Raj (Saagar Shaikh) and me (Asif Ali), a few spoiled Pakistani-American brothers who suddenly lose everything after their Deli-Tycoon father. The brothers soon find out that their Baba was not a company magnate, but a drug lord in the underground world of organized crime. France plays Zubair, a British-Pakistani Süd-London client who is always dressed for killing.

The series is one of the few media that put the Pakistani talent in the spotlight. France also becomes France to present his acting skills, since the role is a shift in the public person, which he normally represents.

Here is what he told The lawyer About the milestone. The conversation below was processed out of clarity.

The lawyer: This is your first script roll. I am as curious as it was for you. How is it compared to reality TV?

Tan France: It does not compare in any way. It’s so masterfully different. The funny thing is, my sister said when I did it: “You have to be used to it because you are in front of the camera every day.” I can’t even articulate how different these experiences are. I appear every day in another show I do and I am only me. It’s so easy. I am loud and just have to be myself. And it is such a luxury to be paid to be just yourself.

And then it was work, but the most incredible work. I was challenged at every turn, and it felt as good to do something new and experience something that was so special. I can’t believe that at 40 I had to do something that I never thought possible for myself.

This is a scripting role, but you can bring so much of yourself. Of course they are not really a gang leader – Unless we could five.

I am. I am part of the gay mafia.

But they can bring a lot of themselves into this role. HOW is able to portray something as close as at home and Represent these parts of themselves?

Wonderful. The fact that I am on a show with South Asian people – but it is (hopefully) the mass audience, the people outside of our community – and show how this community looks in a way that has never been made before, felt amazing.

I know they don’t refer to it, but I’ll tell you that my life beforehand Strange eyeBefore I moved to America, it was very different from the life I live here in America. I learned very early in life to fight very early. I planned at a young age. So it was really exciting to be able to integrate this page into this character from me, because what she sees in America is smiley, happy, super positive Tan France. You can never really see the dark side. So I love that I can show that.

I just wanted to say that I love that we have a strange man who traditionally male and Morally gray role. How did you tackle this?

I was asked to make camos in many shows, and I usually say no because they only want gay tan France. What is okay, but I do it in my regular job. I don’t want to do it somewhere else. This job really forced me to work hard to be something that I am usually not.

I was so excited about the fact that they wanted me to play a role. I thought it was great that I wanted me to play a violent role. It was so against guy and I would like to believe that this is the success of it.

If I played Jolly Tan, it wouldn’t have been a distance. If I had my own accent, it would have been a distance. I love that I have to do an accent that is not mine, a voice that doesn’t mean, go as I don’t go, so that the violent. Every facet of this person was not me or a version that the world has never seen before. That really excited me.

Deli jung Stream only on Hulu from March 6th.