Would you take a class from this guy? Kal Penn in Epic Movie.
Actor Kal Penn, Kumar of Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, is going to teach two classes at the University of Pennsylvania next year.
Penn, whose real name is Kalpen Modi, will teach Images of Asian Americans in the Media and Contemporary American Teen Films in the Asian American Studies and Cinema Studies departments at Penn.
I just saw (Kal) Penn in The Namesake, where he gave a wonderful serious turn as the main character, Gogol. You could see a little bit of Kumar in the performance and there was one pot-smoking scene, but Penn is definitely showing some dramatic acting chops.
Penn could also be seen recently in the awful, Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj, Epic Movie and he did a few episodes of 24 this season.
Posted by harry at March 26, 2007 12:28 PM
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Interesting. Penn has a *huge* South Asian population, so it kind of makes sense, but it also kind of doesn't. Shouldn't he be teaching an acting class?
Posted by: Neela at March 26, 2007 12:57 PM
Makes me hopeful that has also done his work to have some good historical/social grounding. Good for him.
Posted by: Reyes-Chow at March 26, 2007 1:35 PM
can he teach?!
more importantly, how much is he getting paid??? lol...
Posted by: feministador at March 28, 2007 7:04 AM
That is so great! I wish I went to Penn (and was with Penn!). Kal is so talented.
Posted by: Jackie at March 30, 2007 12:21 PM
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