Kumail Nanjiani is opening up about his Marvel contract.
The 47-year-old actor signed on to join the MCU with Eternals being his first project, where he played Kingo.
Since then, he has only appeared one other time – in an episode of What If…? – and he is now revealing more details about what he originally signed on for before Eternals was a box office flop and the future of the characters in the franchise was put on the back burner.
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“I talked about how I was in this big movie. It came out right after COVID, so I had a year and a half at home to just be like, ‘Oh, when this thing comes out!’” he said on Mike Bibriglia‘s Working It Out podcast about his new stand-up special. “But then it came out and it got really bad reviews and it didn’t do that well. It shattered me too much. That’s when I was like, ‘Oh I need to go to therapy to figure this out.’”
He then explained how he thought he would be involved in the MCU much more.
“I was like, ‘Oh, this is going to be my job for the next 10 years,’” Kumail shared. “I signed on for six movies. I signed on for a video game. I signed on for a theme park ride. They make you sign up for all this stuff. And you’re like, ‘This is the next 10 years of my life, so I’ll be doing Marvel movies every year and, in between, I’ll do my own little things, whatever I want to do.’ And then none of that happened.”
Salma Hayek, who played Ajak in Eternals, also previously revealed she signed on for a multi-film deal with Marvel.
Back in August 2022, one of Kumail‘s co-stars in the movie, Patton Oswalt, hinted that a sequel to the movie was in development, but of course that has not come to fruition as Marvel changed up their output plans.
