{"id":151507,"date":"2022-12-08T06:06:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T06:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/eternals-weight-loss-heightened-my-unhealthy-relationship-with-food\/"},"modified":"2022-12-08T06:06:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T06:06:58","slug":"eternals-weight-loss-heightened-my-unhealthy-relationship-with-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/eternals-weight-loss-heightened-my-unhealthy-relationship-with-food\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Eternals’ Weight Loss Heightened My ‘Unhealthy’ Relationship with Food"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kumail Nanjiani has eternally had a \u201cweird relationship\u201d with food and diet culture, but Marvel’s \u201cEternals\u201d marked a turning point for the actor.<\/p>\n

While Nanjiani underwent a physical transformation to play a god superhero in the 2021 movie, he had to come to terms with long-lingering issues related to food consumption.<\/p>\n

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\u201cGrowing up, I was sort of raised to believe that the body was bad, that all of the body’s desires are bad, and that the soul wants goodness and the body wants bad. And so I guess my entire sense of humor is based around that dichotomy, too,\u201d Nanjiani told NPR. \u201cSo the fact that I didn’t like any body jokes was because since I was a little kid, I was taught to sort of be ashamed that everything my body wants or does.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201cWelcome to Chippendales\u201d actor added, \u201cIt’s really cruel that we had such limits on how much we could eat because Pakistani food is absolutely delicious. I’ve always had a weird relationship with food. I’ve always had guilt or regret associated with it. I’ve always used food as a punishment or as a reward.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued, \u201cI didn’t really start thinking about it or trying to come to terms with it until after I was done with ‘Eternals,’ because doing ‘Eternals’ brought a lot of those issues up to the surface. I realized after that that I thought about food in a specific kind of way that I needed to explore and revisit.\u201d<\/p>\n

The preparation for playing real-life true crime figure and male exotic dance club founder Somen \u201cSteve\u201d Banerjee helped Nanjiani do \u201ca lot of that work for me\u201d when it came to addressing food concerns.<\/p>\n

\u201cI realized that I had been so rigid with food and used it in so many unhealthy ways and then forcing myself to eat unhealthy amounts of unhealthy food in a way got me out of that trap,\u201d he said .\u201dIt’s still work to do , but it was freeing for months to just eat whatever I wanted, to eat as much as I wanted. It sort of freed me from some of the ways that I’ve been thinking about food.\u201d<\/p>\n