President Joe Biden presented Kal Penn some matter-of-fact recommendation on marrying his longtime fiancé: “Do it now. Don’t wait.”
The president was once interviewed through Penn, in Indian-American actor easiest recognized for starring within the “Harold & Kumar” films, for an episode of “The Day by day Display” that aired Monday. Penn got here out in 2021, revealing that he was once engaged to his spouse of eleven years, Josh, who he mentioned he fell in love with whilst operating within the Barack Obama management.
In December, Biden codified same-sex and interracial marriage into regulation through signing the Appreciate for Marriage Act. Penn requested the president how he got here to toughen marriage equality.
Biden recalled having an “epiphany” sooner or later whilst he was once a senior in highschool, when he noticed two males kissing on their strategy to paintings.
“And I’ll by no means omit, I became and appeared to my Dad. He mentioned, ‘Joey, it’s easy. They love every different,’” Biden mentioned. “It’s simply that easy.”
“It doesn’t topic whether or not its same-sex or a heterosexual couple, they will have to be capable to be married,” he later added. “What’s the drawback? So pay attention in your auntie and your uncle and get married. Do it now. Don’t wait.”
Penn and Josh had been engaged for 5 years, and no longer a lot has been printed publicly about Josh, together with his remaining identify.
Penn joked right through the interview that “each and every auntie and uncle that I’ve is past disenchanted that there hasn’t been a marriage but.”
In 2021, he mentioned he’s pushing for a “giant ass Indian wedding ceremony.”
“Clearly I’m engaged to a person and our households will likely be there for the marriage,” he mentioned on the time. “The large confrontation now could be whether or not it’s an enormous wedding ceremony or a tiny wedding ceremony.”
Watch the overall interview underneath.