When Eternal It was released in 2021, Marvel Studios hoped in a turning point. Instead, it became their first “rotten” film on Rotten Tomatoes and fought at the box office with a modest global radius of 402 million dollars.
Now, almost four years later, Kumail Nanjiani He is opening up on the emotional toll that the welcome of the film had on him and the surprisingly enormous number of MCU projects for which he initially signed up.
Nanjiani played Kingo in the film and a recent interview, the actor became sincere on how deeply the negative response influenced him.
“He came out immediately after Covid, so I had a year and a half at home to be just like,” when this thing comes out … “he came out, he got really bad reviews, and he didn’t do so well. He broke me too much. It was when I was like” Oh, I have to go to therapy to understand it. “
In addition to the reviews, the biggest surprise could be the number of projects that Marvel had in mind for Kingo. Nanjiani revealed that he has signed for much more than one film.
“I was like” this will be my job for the next ten years. “I signed for six movies.
“They make you sign for all these things. You are like, ‘Okay, so I will make Marvel films every year and in the middle, I will do my little things. Whatever I want to do.'”
But none of these materialized.
“None of this happened. For me, what really struck me was to do that too much of my self -esteem is surrounded by the reactions of other people to my work. People have much bigger problems than that.”
Despite the emotional Russian mountains, Nanjiani still holds Eternal in high regard.
“There were too many people in the eternators if you believe the reviews. I loved the film. I am very proud of it.”
The film, directed by Chloé zhaoIt was clearly positioned as a large pillar for the future of Marvel, with the first buzz of Oscar and the speculation that could launch a saga on the X-Men scale. Yet today, Marvel remained silent in solving the cliffhanger of the film and the fate of the Eternal Taken by Arishem it remains unknown.
Kingo has returned to an animated form for an episode of What if…?But there was no live-action follow-up. The Nanjiani is said to have the leap in the DC universe to play the gold booster, although nothing is confirmed.
However, its story offers a fascinating look at the unpredictable nature of Hollywood, even when you are part of the world’s largest film franchise.
By Joey Gour
Source: Geek Tyrant
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