As we know, Kumail Nanjiani got incredibly ripped once he found out he would be joining the cast of Marvel's THE ETERNALS, but achieving muscular perfection seems to have other benefits as well. While appearing on Conan, Nanjiani discussed his physical transformation, which he joked was purely decorative. "They don't really do anything," Nanjiani said. "Emily [Gordon] will be like, 'Can you open this jar for me?' And I'm like, 'Probably not.'"
While Kumail Nanjiani may not be opening as many jars as he expected, he was given the honor of being the face (and body) of PornHub's Muscular Men category. The actor stated that PornHub compensated him with a 10-year subscription to Pornhub Premium.
They gave me a 10-year free subscription to Pornhub Premium. I will say, because people are like, 'Why do you need to pay for porn?' and I do not work for Pornhub, they have not paid me to say this, you have access to a whole new world. Like, free porn is good, but when you go to Premium, I could develop fetishes, crazy ones over the next 10 years, and I know I’ll be taken care of.
When asked by Conan O'Brien what delights are to be found in the realm of premium porn (Conan guessed that the same stuff is happening but everyone is wearing really nice hats), Nanjiani said, "If I have to explain it to you, you wouldn't understand."
Kumail Nanjiani has previously teased that THE ETERNALS may be more sci-fi, not to mention epic, than anything Marvel has done so far.
It’s really, really an epic. And it’s really such a science-fiction story. It’s a superhero story, but in some ways, it’s the most sci-fi of all the Marvel movies and it’s the most epic of all the Marvel movies. And the story spans thousands of years. So it’s really not like any of the other Marvel movies.
"I love superhero movies, but beyond that, this is exactly the type of movie that I love," Nanjiani continued. "If someone would say, ‘All right, what kind of movie do you want to watch? What are the things that’s going to have?’ I would say all these things. And that’s what this movie is. It really spans thousands and thousands of years. And the story is just so big and so epic. And I don’t mean epic in the internet way, I mean epic in the old-school way…It doesn’t look like any of the other Marvel movies. I was on set shooting, and the director showed me just a still of all of us together in the scene. And I was like, ‘I mean, look at all of us together.’ We all look so different. It’s me and a huge buff guy from Korea [Ma Dong-seok] and Salma Hayek and Angelina Jolie and Gemma Chan and Lauren Ridloff. You don’t ever get to see people like this together in the same room, let alone in awesome superhero costumes." THE ETERNALS is slated to hit theaters on November 6, 2020.