Actor Kumail Nanjiani, who starred in Marvel’s Eternals, said he was left “traumatized” after his film was poorly received by critics and audiences after spending a year transforming his body to suit his superhero role. , revealed that he needed treatment.
Nanjiani reportedly spent months in the gym preparing for the big studio film, gaining 25 pounds of muscle for the role.The actor was also on the cover men’s health magazine.
“When I found out a year ago that I was going to be in Marvel Eternals, I decided I wanted to change my look.” he wrote on Instagram “I wouldn’t have been able to do this if I hadn’t been paid by the biggest studio in the world and spent a whole year working with the best trainers and nutritionists.”
Nevertheless, Nanjiani said in 2020 that he considers “traditional masculinity” to be “sick.”
In a since-deleted post on “It may have given them a way to approach men who actually liked President Trump’s ‘ignore’ approach.”
Years later, the actor revealed to co-star Michael Rosenbaum that he was still deeply affected by the negative reviews of his films.
“Marvel thought this movie would be really well received, so they lifted the embargo early and submitted it to some fancy film festivals, and they hired us to promote the movie as soon as the embargo was lifted. They sent me on a huge world tour,” he said in “.Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum. ”
He described the experience as “really, really tough” because he was “too conscious” of negative reviews and read “everything” about them all. He also started behaving “unfairly” towards his wife, he claimed.
“I have started counseling,” he revealed. “I still talk to my therapist about it. … I’m traumatized by it. In fact, we just had dinner with another character from that movie and he said, ‘That was tough. And he was like, “Yeah, that was really hard.”
“I realized that I couldn’t be more results-oriented in my work because I couldn’t control it. I could control my experience. “You can control what you learn from it and how you do your work. You can’t control what people think about it,” he added.
Marvel’s “The Eternals” was a movie about immortal aliens who emerge from hiding thousands of years later. guardian He explained. Nanjiani played a character named Kingo, who was described by the outlet as a fame-loving hero who can create projectiles of cosmic energy. This character became a star in Bollywood as a way to blend in with the earth.
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