President Joe Biden provided Kal Penn some matter-of-fact recommendation on marrying his longtime fiancé: “Do it now. Don’t wait.”
The president was interviewed by Penn, in Indian-American actor greatest identified for starring within the “Harold & Kumar” motion pictures, for an episode of “The Day by day Present” that aired Monday. Penn got here out in 2021, revealing that he was engaged to his accomplice of 11 years, Josh, who he mentioned he fell in love with whereas working within the Barack Obama administration.
In December, Biden codified same-sex and interracial marriage into legislation by signing the Respect for Marriage Act. Penn requested the president how he got here to assist marriage equality.
Biden recalled having an “epiphany” at some point whereas he was a senior in highschool, when he noticed two males kissing on their method to work.
“And I’ll always remember, I turned and regarded to my Dad. He mentioned, ‘Joey, it’s easy. They love one another,’” Biden mentioned. “It’s simply that straightforward.”
“It doesn’t matter whether or not its same-sex or a heterosexual couple, they need to have the ability to be married,” he later added. “What's the drawback? So take heed to your auntie and your uncle and get married. Do it now. Don’t wait.”
Penn and Josh have been engaged for 5 years, and never a lot has been revealed publicly about Josh, together with his final identify.
Penn joked in the course of the interview that “each auntie and uncle that I've is past disillusioned that there hasn’t been a marriage but.”
In 2021, he mentioned he’s pushing for a “large ass Indian wedding ceremony.”
“Clearly I'm engaged to a person and our households shall be there for the marriage,” he mentioned on the time. “The massive disagreement now's whether or not it’s an enormous wedding ceremony or a tiny wedding ceremony.”
Watch the total interview under.
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