You may know Aziz Ansari best as the man who taught you to “treat yo’ self” over the course of seven seasons on Parks And Recreation, but he also won multiple Emmys for Master Of None, the brilliant show that spent three seasons on the Netflix schedule between 2015 and 2021. Master Of None was both a critical and commercial success, marking a turning point in Ansari’s career as the industry began to take him more seriously as a writer. Now he’s moving into the world of features with his upcoming film Good Fortune .
Unsurprisingly, there are some major ways in which the new movie was inspired by the stories he was telling on Netflix all those years ago. I recently spoke with Ansari to celebrate the upcoming release of Good Fortune , and when I mentioned Master Of