Kumail Nanjiani Gives Shang-Chi Star Simu Liu Advice For His MCU Debut

Kumail Nanjiani has joined the MCU in Marvel’s The Eternals, which is finishing up production, and he has some advice for Shang-Chi star Simu Liu. Nanjiani spoke with eTalk alongside his wife Emily Gordon promoting their new anthology series Little America and the subject of his getting ripped for The Eternals came up.

During the interview, Nanjiani was asked if he had any advice for Liu, who will star in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Nanjiani demurred in terms of advice for getting in shape, but had some more general advice for Liu.

“Well, Simu was already in really good shape,” he said. “Not that I wasn’t — Simu is already in great shape, and he’s going to get in better shape. We met him, we met him at Comic-Con, he was very, very nice. I would suggest, have fun, just enjoy it. It can be very hard when you’re doing a big thing like that to really like- you want to focus, but it can be hard to sometimes not enjoy it while you’re doing it. So that would be my advice to him, just have fun.”

The Eternals is set to release on November 6th, while Shang-Chi has a February 12, 2021 release date.