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so many actors who can do so much, and there are so little opportunities for any actor – but when you add things like race, gender, ethnicity, obviously the opportunity pool gets a lot smaller. So it's simultaneously frustrating and rewarding. Because when you do have the opportunity to play those parts, it's extremely rewarding."

Luckily for his fans, though, Penn hasn't abandoned comedy completely. "I'm working on the sequel to Harold and Kumar right now, in Louisiana, so that goes until the middle of March. And I'm shooting a pilot for ABC called The Call. It's being produced by the guys who did 24. It's a half-hour single-camera comedy about two EMTs in Los Angeles. And then we'll see what happens after that." With a career as purposefully unconventional as Penn's, it's anyone's guess.

More Interviews withKal Penn

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Kal Penn