Kumail Nanjiani is talking all about his character in Marvel’s upcoming The Eternals. The 43-year-old actor revealed that his character, Kingo, blasts away all the stereotypes that many brown actors are subject to. “I’ve been in this industry for about a decade and I looked at the usual opportunities that the brown dudes get,” Kumail shared with the LA Times. “We get to be nerdy.
I wanted him to be the opposite of that — I wanted him to be cool. With nerdy goes ‘weakling,’ and I wanted him to be the opposite of that and to be strong physically.” Click inside to see what else Kumail shared about his Eternals role… Kumail added that the other type of roles brown actors get are typically “terrorists, and I wanted him to be the opposite of
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