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Pakistani-American actor Kumail Nanjiani plays Kingo, one of the title characters in "The Eternals", Marvel's new movie scheduled for release in 2021. Kingo is a 16th century Japanese master swordsman and a film star and producer. The Eternals are a race of immortal superheroes. The movie also stars Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek, Richard Madden, and Kit Harington.
Kumail Nanjiani
Nanjiani is a comedian. Prior to The Eternals, Nanjiani has not played any muscular hero roles. He had to train for a year to get in shape for this role. Posting a photo showing his killer abs on Instagram, Nanjiani said: "I found out a year ago I was going to be in Marvel's Eternals and decided I wanted to transform how I looked. I would not have been able to do this if I didn't have a full year with the best trainers and nutritionists paid for by the biggest studio in the world".
One of constant themes of his media coverage the fact that he is among the few men of color in the mostly white world of Hollywood. In a recent Hollywood Reporter roundtable with Ricky Gervais, Ramy Youssef, Kenan Thompson and Dan Levy, Nanjiani said Sometimes I feel like there are these two buckets: There's white people, and everyone else is "people of color," and there's this idea that there's a monolithic thought in there.
Kumail Nanjiani's first starring role was in HBO comedy "Silicon Valley" in which he plays a Pakistani-American software engineer. Nanjiani says that "I feel more Pakistani than I have in the last 10 years". "I feel way more defined by my ethnicity now," Nanjiani says. "If there's an ethnicity that is maligned and attacked and demonized ... I'm with you. I stand with you. Because it's unavoidable that people are seeing me a certain way, I kind of want to own it. I feel more Pakistani than I have in the last 10 years", he told USA Today.
Kumail interspersed his 2017 movie The Big Sick with a running presentation on his country of birth that shows him singing the first few lines of Pakistan's national anthem out loud. Nanjiani also brings out his love of cricket and the fact that Pakistan has the world's largest contiguous farm irrigation system.
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http://www.riazhaq.com/2020/07/pakistani-american-actor-kumail.html
Pakistani-American actor Kumail Nanjiani plays Kingo, one of the title characters in "The Eternals", Marvel's new movie scheduled for release in 2021. Kingo is a 16th century Japanese master swordsman and a film star and producer. The Eternals are a race of immortal superheroes. The movie also stars Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek, Richard Madden, and Kit Harington.
Kumail Nanjiani
Nanjiani is a comedian. Prior to The Eternals, Nanjiani has not played any muscular hero roles. He had to train for a year to get in shape for this role. Posting a photo showing his killer abs on Instagram, Nanjiani said: "I found out a year ago I was going to be in Marvel's Eternals and decided I wanted to transform how I looked. I would not have been able to do this if I didn't have a full year with the best trainers and nutritionists paid for by the biggest studio in the world".
One of constant themes of his media coverage the fact that he is among the few men of color in the mostly white world of Hollywood. In a recent Hollywood Reporter roundtable with Ricky Gervais, Ramy Youssef, Kenan Thompson and Dan Levy, Nanjiani said Sometimes I feel like there are these two buckets: There's white people, and everyone else is "people of color," and there's this idea that there's a monolithic thought in there.
Kumail Nanjiani's first starring role was in HBO comedy "Silicon Valley" in which he plays a Pakistani-American software engineer. Nanjiani says that "I feel more Pakistani than I have in the last 10 years". "I feel way more defined by my ethnicity now," Nanjiani says. "If there's an ethnicity that is maligned and attacked and demonized ... I'm with you. I stand with you. Because it's unavoidable that people are seeing me a certain way, I kind of want to own it. I feel more Pakistani than I have in the last 10 years", he told USA Today.
Kumail interspersed his 2017 movie The Big Sick with a running presentation on his country of birth that shows him singing the first few lines of Pakistan's national anthem out loud. Nanjiani also brings out his love of cricket and the fact that Pakistan has the world's largest contiguous farm irrigation system.
Related Links:
Haq's Musings
South Asia Investor Review
Pakistani-American Actor-Producer Kumail Nanjiani's The Big Sick
HBO Comedy "Silicon Valley" Stars Pakistani-American
Pakistanis Make Up Largest Foreign-Born Muslim Group in Silicon Valley
Karachi to Hollywood: Triple Oscar Winning Pakistani-American
Burka Avenger: Pakistani Female Superhero
Burka Avenger Videos on Vimeo Channel
Pakistani-American Ashar Aziz's Fireeye Goes Public
Pakistani-American Shahid Khan Richest South Asian in America
Two Pakistani-American Silicon Valley Techs Among Top 5 VC Deals
Pakistani-American's Game-Changing Vision
Minorities Are Majority in Silicon Valley
Pakistani-American Population Growth Second Fastest Among Asian-Americans
Edible Arrangements: Pakistani-American's Success Story
Pakistani-American Elected Mayor
Upwardly Mobile Pakistan
Riaz Haq's Youtube Channel
PakAlumni Social Network
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