A post shared by @ kumailn on Mar 19, 2020 at 9:55am PDT.

When he moved to LA and started taking the idea of acting seriously, he went for it full force as well.

He said of the time: “It was like therapy.

And as soon as I started taking acting classes… All these emotions I’d learned to suppress, I was now learning to get in touch with.

He said the first two weeks were the worst of his life, and it seems like his new workout regiment followed a similar pattern of misery at first.

I’m glad I look like this, but I also understand why I never did before.

A post shared by @ kumailn on Dec 16, 2019 at 8:10am PST.

A post shared by Marvel Studios (@marvelstudios) on Aug 29, 2019 at 11:08am PDT.

Filming of The Eternals has ended now, meaning a dream fulfilled for Nanjiani who didn’t want to just be in a Marvel film but wanted to be a superhero.

I don’t want to be the schlubby brown guy—I want to look like someone who can hang with Thor and Captain America.”

He shared that about a month into rehearsals for The Eternals a producer said to him: “Hey we’re worried about you

He also shared that prior to that he had been taking nitric oxide to achieve a more vascular look to his muscles but realized he had to stop that when it started to cause rosacea on his face