Kumail Nanjiani recently opened up about how he was impacted by the negative reviews for Marvel’s “Eternals,” sharing that the experience left him traumatized and requiring counseling.
That idea convinced Marvel to lift the embargo early and put the cast on a global tour to promote the film, Nanjiani told the “Smallville” alumnus.
The reviews come in: The “Ghostbuster: Afterlife” actor noted that he was hyper-aware of the negative reviews of “Eternals” while the cast was on the tour, saying, “I was reading every review. I was checking too much because this thing had become too much in my head.”
“Unfair”: Nanjiani recalled the experience as being “really hard” and he realized at the time that “this is unfair to me. It’s unfair to Emily [Gordon, his wife]. I can’t approach my work this way anymore. Some sh*t has got to change.”
Nanjiani said he had to eventually undergo counseling following the experience and that he still talks to his therapist about it. He added, “Emily says that I do have trauma from it.”
What he learned: After his experience with “The Marvels,” Nanjiani realized that he “can’t be so result based” in his work anymore “[because] I really can’t control it. I can control my experience, how I am to the people around me, what I…
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