you’re able to watch Chris D’Elia’s new special No Pain on Netflix, April 14.
Now, he’s bringing the same commitment he gives to his jokes to more mainstream acting projects.
“It’s a big role for me,” D’Elia notes.
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“What I want to do is stand-up and action movies.”
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Your intro and outro for the special is a Logic song featuring Eminem.
You actually played a version of Eminem for that music video.
You have this special relationship with him now.
Whathas that been like?
CHRIS D’ELIA:Eminem is a whole different thing.
I’m a big Eminem fan."
I would have s— myself.
On the road, you don’t know what you eat.
You’ve been acting here and there for a long time, but how did your part onYoucome about?
Some of them were fine, but some of them were really bad.
None of them had me be the pop in of funny the way I want to be funny.
ForYou,they were like, will you audition for it?
If I hadn’t seen the show, I would not have auditioned for it.
But I had seen it and was a fan.
You know, I don’t know if fun is the right way to put it.
I noticed in the credits of your special that your brother was the director.
My brother still knows my sensibility better than anybody.
I asked him to do it.
He had never done a comedy special before.
Your brother is younger than you but came up in Hollywood around the same time.
Was that always the idea?
Him showing us stuff, it shaped our upbringing.
It made us who we are, at least when it comes to performing in comedy.
Later, I started writing and then doing stand-up later.
My brother went to film school, so yeah we started around the same time.
We grew up in like the La Canada area near Pasadena.
Why do you think that is?
I used to feel insecure about not having that underdog vibe.
I would always hear people are really funny because theyre hiding their pain.
People do use it for that, and I applaud them for it.
But that’s not what I do.
Who you are is only who you are in your head.
A lot of comedy can spark from those kinds of situations.
