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You could knowKumail NanjianiHBO'sSilicon Valleyand the romantic comedy Hit 2017THE GREAT SICK. But this November he will join the world of the MARVEL kinematics inThe eternallike Kingo. In December 2019, Nanjiani practically broke the internet by publishing a photo "thirst of bare torso" displaying hisNEW MARVEL BODY. Now, in a new interview forThe health of men, Nanjiani opens on the pressure to be the firstSuper hero of South-South Asia And the toll the transformation took it on him.

By working every day at the gymnasium, Nanjiani said having the same thought crosses his mind: "I play the first superhero of South Asia in aMovie Marvel. I do not want to be the Schlubby brown guy, I want to look like someone who can hang with Thor and Captain America. "

Safe to say, it has reached its goal.

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Growing up in Pakistan, Nanjiani had devoured comics and action movies, but, he thought, he did not seem to have had the chance to spend a lot of chances in this space for people who looked like him. With a diverse overall set, MarvelThe eternalChange that.

"We all look so different," recently said NanjianiWeekly entertainment. "It's me and a huge korean buff guy [My dong-seok] andSalma Hayek andAngelina Jolie andGemma Chan andLauren Ridloff. You never get to see people like this together in the same room, even fewer great superhero costumes. "

But at first, being a buffer superhero did not seem to be a particularly feasible goal for Nanjiani, a person who had been attached as a somewhat "passed" nerd with a great sense of humor.

"Kumail would show us pictures of [Pakistani modelAbbas Jafri] Although we were on the plateau, and it looks a little envious, "Thomas Middlechitch, hisSilicon Valley Co-star, saysThe health of men. "None of us has no hesitation about:" I would like to have his jaw or his weapons or something else. "I think a lot of sensitive bizarre comedians secretly aspire to be the tough guy. And when they finally have a reason to totally change their bodies to become a superhero, they are more incumbent."

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Inspired by people likeChris Pratt, who managed to succeedHangar Son Schlubby Funny-Guy Custom ofParks and leisureBecome a ripped superhero in the film Marvel 2014Guardians of the galaxyNanjiani decided that even if it was "a blowjob", could also do it.

"I was very strategic about it," he said. "I was like:" I do not want to be justpart a wonder movie; I want to be a Marvel superhero. "

Nanjiani stuck to a strict meal calendar directed by a studio leader five days a week and cut sugar and gluten on weekends.

But he had trouble dissociating emotionally with the physical pain of his new exhaustingworkout. "At first, every time he came home with a workout, he could not focus on anything," Nanjiani's wife and hisSickco-writer,Emily V. Gordon, RecountThe health of men. "He was still a functional person, but for an hour, you could not really rely on him to have a conversation. His body adjusted."

Only when he embraced the pain, instead of trying to avoid it, that the muscles came, as well as the pleasure of working.

"I had to change relationship with pain," said Nanjiani. "You are so designed to avoid it, but in this situation, you really have to be ok with that. You mustwant to this. He tries almostREWIRE your brain. "

"Today, I led to this gym and five minutes to my workout, my mood broke out," he added. "I love it."