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Aziz Ansari is Luddite and I’m proud of it.
In his new film’s good fortune, Keanu Reeves plays a low-level angel who helps humans prevent texting and driving. But that’s not the pain Ansari, who wrote, directed and starred in comedy, suffers.
He doesn’t have a smartphone yet. And when it comes to technology fasting, when it comes to “I’m starving myself,” Ansari will leave Shutterstock studio with People/EW at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday, September 7th, and at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday, September 7th, and at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday, October 17th.
“I have a flip phone,” says screenwriter Hoshi, 42. “I block almost every website from my computer. I don’t have an email address… I have a landline phone. I love landline phones!”
How long has he resisted going back to his smartphone? Ansari thinks and thinks. “I don’t know. I stopped using email in Who Master’s Season 1. It’s almost like a decade,” he says.
“But look, I’m not ignorant of my privilege in my life,” he added. “I have an assistant and all of these things that help me take care of things and manage things.”
The Emmy Award winner admits that life without email is “not practical for everyone.” “But for me it helps me maintain a clear mind to help me write about things more important to my work.”
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Lionsgate’s Fortune follows “A rather incompetent angel named Gabriel,” starring Ansari, Reeves, Seth Rogen, Sandra Oh and Keke Palmer.
“He was very interesting,” Ansari recalls working with Reeves. “We started filming and then, ‘Yeah, he’s really on fire here. I could get a little more Gabriel Bit here,” a comedy writer’s dream. ”
When it comes to social media, Parks & Recreation Alum is handled by an assistant and admits that his Instagram account is “not me.” He said, “Hopefully there will be no super attacks posted there. I hope that it’s all good.”
He said maintaining a digital footprint is “not what I’m good at. What I’m good at is writing scripts or something. That’s where I want to put my energy down. Or watch or read movies. It’s a better use of my head space for me.”
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Following the Toronto premiere on September 6th, good fortune will be in the theater on October 17th.
