Pretty much everything we’re hearing about Marvel’s upcoming ensemble blockbuster Eternals has got us excited, from the announcement that it will feature an openly gay superhero and his husband, to the casting of a prominent deaf character, to the eleventh hour surprise casting of Game of Thrones star Kit Harington.
And now Kumail Nanjiani, who sent the internet into a tailspin with his superhero transformation while shooting, has just dropped a tidbit which makes the whole thing sound even greater: Eternals will feature a bona fide musical number.
Speaking to Deadline‘s New Hollywood podcast, Nanjiani offered up some info on his character, Kingo, one of the titular Eternals who have spent millennia living on Earth in order to secretly defend it from the creatures known as Deviants.
“A lot of it takes place in the present day,” he said. “My character, for instance, is like, ‘OK we’re supposed to keep a low profile, no-one should know’. So I become a Bollywood movie star, that’s my secret identity. We’re supposed to keep quiet, and I’ve become the biggest Bollywood movie star.”
This wouldn’t be the first time that a character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe has failed to fully grasp the notion of a secret identity (we’re looking at you, Iron Man), but Kingo’s cover as a Bollywood actor led to the inclusion of more diverse performers in the movie — particularly in a musical sequence featuring Nanjiani and a whole lot of Bollywood background performers.
Nanjiani went on to describe how it felt to shoot the scene, which featured quite possibly the largest South Asian cast in the history of the MCU. “I remember the first time I went to rehearsal, I walked in and there were all these South Asian people,” he said. “I was so moved immediately. I was like, ‘Oh my god, we went from none of us to so many in one scene.”
Fans can see the Bollywood number for themselves when Eternals is released on November 6.
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