Kumail Nanjiani Says He Sought Therapy Over Bad ‘Eternals’ Reviews

Kumail Nanjiani says that film critics have been so harsh on his Marvel film from a number of years in the past that he thought it would be greatest to get on the sofa and see a shrink about it … yep.

The actor — who performed one of many leads in 2021’s “Eternals” — informed the story on the “Inside of You” podcast with Michael Rosenbaum … the place he defined that the work he put into it did not match the response, no less than in his eyes.

KN mentioned the evaluations have been horrible, and he was a bit too conscious of it — occurring to elucidate that he was studying every suppose piece about his film, which apparently bothered him lots.

He additionally notes that it was affecting his house life, including … “It was really hard, and that was when I thought it was unfair to me and unfair to [my wife] Emily, and I can’t approach my work this way anymore. Some s*** has to change, so I started counseling. I still talk to my therapist about that.”

Even now, Kumail thinks he is nonetheless affected by the expertise — saying … “Emily says that I do have trauma from it. We really simply acquired dinner with any person else from that film and we have been like, ‘That was powerful, wasn’t it?’ and he’s like ‘Yeah, that was actually powerful.’