In I Don’t Understand You, Nick Kroll and Andrew Rannells play a couple lost in translation — literally and emotionally — navigating foreign lands and the even more treacherous terrain of long-term love. But for audiences familiar with their work on Big Mouth and Human Resources, watching these two veer from animated adolescent chaos into indie-film existential dread feels less like a departure and more like a natural evolution.
Hear what they had to say!
Awards Buzz’s Sari Cohen caught up with the longtime collaborators ahead of the film’s June 6 premiere to talk about surviving culture shock, calibrating comedy, and the strange comfort of being wildly misunderstood… by someone who kind of gets you anyway.
I Don’t Understand You is in theaters now.