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Karan Soni

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[Wikipedia] Karan Soni is an American actor. Often appearing in comedic roles, he came to prominence for playing Dopinder in the films Deadpool (2016) and its sequels Deadpool 2 (2018) and Deadpool & Wolverine (2024), and voicing Pavitr Prabhakar / Spider-Man India in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023).

Quotes by Karan Soni

Personally, I like all actors who are mysterious and don't have social media.

Media

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Among actors, I'd like to work with Alia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor.

Among

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I love masala movies.

Cinema

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No, I can never feel comfortable. It's not a good thing. Always better to be terrified.

Always

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Honestly, after working for more than 10-11 years in the industry, I've learnt that you have to only take the positives.

Honestly

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Because when I write I like to think who would be the actor who would play it.

Actor

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I'm not good at audition tapes.

Audition

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'Deadpool 2' played on your expectations of what a sequel to a superhero movie would be.

Expectations

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When I went to theater school, most of the people I graduated with aren't working. I've consistently worked and made a good…

Good

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The second one is more about Dopinder working with Deadpool and being like 'I am ready for more stuff.' He is more…

Fun

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Working in 'Deadpool' was a really big change for me as an actor.

Actor

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There's such a want for Indian people to be represented in large scale movies. Hopefully, it will happen more and more, whether…

Indian

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In America in general... I know there are a lot of parts where may be it is not that great to be…

America

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If we look at 'Black Panther,' it did so well. There were a bunch of supporting black characters in the movies for…

Black

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In a weird way, if someone is so confident in you, it makes you be like, 'Oh, I guess they've seen something…

Confidence

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Before 'Deadpool,' if I was walking on the street, some people would recognize for some project, and another person for a different…

Person

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I hope in my lifetime we will get to see an Indian superhero for sure.

Hope

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I could never get cast with an Indian accent. I was not getting cast.

Accent

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I didn't do a lot of drama and decided to do comedy, so I never used to get those terrorist audition and…

Beginning

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Not only is there more content, but the producers are also focusing on characters rather than their ethnicities. I mean, when you…

Actor

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The makers always wanted the movie to be diverse because 'Deadpool' takes place in the 'X-Men' universe. The mutants are kind of…

Always

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When it comes to work ethics and business, I look up to Aziz Ansari. He's got everything together on his own terms.…

Books

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Yeah, I would love to play someone really dumb, just really foolish.

Dumb

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It's more like individually how lucky and talented you are, that combination determines how successful you will be.

How

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Dopinder wants to help Deadpool fight... To become a superhero. But Deadpool right away says 'You're gonna die' and 'There's no way…

Fight

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