{"id":2208052,"date":"2025-12-22T01:23:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T01:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2208052"},"modified":"2025-12-22T01:23:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T01:23:40","slug":"kumail-nanjiani-says-hes-very-proud-of-his-performance-in-marvels-eternals-i-do-not-get-to-choose-what-the-reviewers-are-going-to-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kumail-nanjiani-says-hes-very-proud-of-his-performance-in-marvels-eternals-i-do-not-get-to-choose-what-the-reviewers-are-going-to-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Kumail Nanjiani Says He\u2019s \u2018Very Proud\u2019 of His Performance in Marvel\u2019s \u2018Eternals\u2019: \u2018I Do Not Get to Choose What the Reviewers Are Going to Think\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/name\/nm3529685\/\">Kumail Nanjiani<\/a> got candid about his experience working on the critically panned Marvel movie \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/title\/tt9032400\/\">Eternals<\/a>\u201d on a recent episode of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/company\/co0891842\/\">NPR<\/a>\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/title\/tt2231253\/\">Wild Card<\/a> with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/name\/nm17902793\/\">Rachel Martin<\/a>, saying that the film changed how he approached work \u2014 something he\u2019s \u201cvery grateful for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very proud of my performance in it,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s rare to say, but I actually wouldn\u2019t change anything about how I am in that movie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The actor and comedian played the superhero <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/name\/nm5601743\/\">Kingo<\/a> in the 2021 fantasy film alongside other stars <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/name\/nm3229685\/\">Kit Harington<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/name\/nm0534635\/\">Richard Madden<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/name\/nm2110418\/\">Gemma Chan<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001401\/\">Angelina Jolie<\/a>. Despite the stacked cast, the film opened to disappointing box office and lukewarm reviews from critics.<\/p>\n<p>On the podcast, Nanjiani went on to share his biggest takeaways from the experience, including the importance of separating \u201cmy experience of something versus the result of something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost times if I\u2019m acting in something, I&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source m.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kumail Nanjiani got candid about his experience working on the critically panned Marvel movie \u201cEternals\u201d on a recent episode of NPR\u2019s Wild Card with Rachel Martin, saying that the film changed how he approached work \u2014 something he\u2019s \u201cvery grateful for.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m very proud of my performance in it,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s rare to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2208053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2208052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Kumail-Nanjiani-Says-Hes-\u2018Very-Proud-of-His-Performance-in.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2208052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2208054,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208052\/revisions\/2208054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2208053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2208052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2208052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2208052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}