No that was his cover identity, what he pretended to be so that people wouldn't find out about his real/secret identity, a multi-thousand-year old super powered being from space
If I had to make the choice, I would rather be Indian than Pakistani as well. Even Ms Marvel with its strong Pakistani tone filmed its Karachi scenes in Thailand.
I feel like you have a choice to make, and it how human your going to be when approaching the topic. Humans are the most genetically simular beings known on the face of the planet. That means anything could have been reversed, and It would all be the same anyway.
I mean , if we go deeper...."Kingo" is a corruptive name of "Kingu" , which is a mesopotamian god.
So , you could say a pakistani actor portraying a mesopotamian , while still not the right etnicity , is still closer than an indian.
Correct! Also, humans are humans! Not black or brown or Pakistani or Indi, just humans. It's scientifically proven that we all share 99% of our genetic code with each other, regardless of nationalities or ethnicity.
Geneticist here - this false. We share just less than 99% with chimpanzees, 98% with gorillas, 97% with orangutans - and the number becomes smaller the more diverged the species considered. We share about 70% with gastropods (slugs and the like), 45% with insects, and maybe 25% with plants...
No worries! To be fair it really depends on how you define what it means to 'share DNA' - the percentages I used are roughly what you'd get from looking at the level of sequence divergence. If you were use to a more lenient metric - such as what proportion of protein encoding genes we'd share - you could say that plants and animals share about 50-60% of their genes. It's possible the website you were using was referencing the DNA sequence of a particular gene or set of genes - there are some genes which are somewhat highly conserved across all Eukaryotes, or (to a lesser extent) across all living things.
Did you ever stop to think that the comment you are responding so rudely to might have been written by a broccoli?
DiD yOu KnOw ThAt *geneticists* share 99% of their *conclusions* with *frogs*!?! Because you both are great at jumping blindly to them!!!!
(please read this out loud in a wildly condescending voice while flailing your arms around dramatically for the full effect)
Good point, we are more like 99.6 with a 0.4 percent variation, which accounts for about 12 million base pairs of human beings. The ratio in which humans are similar to each other is by far greater than any other being known to humanity. What this essentially means is that there are no separate breeds of human like there are separate breeds of chimpanzees and dogs. Humans are a convergant species, meaning our late ancestors such as Neanderthal and Denisovan have breed into the gene pool to the point that their leniage is completely diluted with human DNA.
It's not a Mesopotamien though, it's an Alien from space who different human civilisations worshipped. He looked like that at the beginning of the movie, before there was a Mesopotamian civilisation.
The meme is stupid io several levels. Kingo is not Indian, he is an Eternal that was living there. The Eternals were modelled after various ethnicities around Earth and were on Earth before either India or Pakistan existed.
He’s an actor, acting like an actor. The post almost presumes that he has to be Indian because only Indians are allowed to be actors in Bollywood. I’m not sure if it’s meta or hypocrisy, or really worth thinking about at all.
He is the best and worst thing that happened to wolverine. Logan is supposed to be a short hairy man with a complex about it which plays into the “love triangle” in that he really doesn’t see himself as a match for Jean. Being Hunkzilla from junk land kinda blows through the nuance of his character.
Also the reason colossus picks him up and throws him at people only works if he’s 5’1, it’s weird if he’s 6’2
>a little unstoppable wolverine of a man.
Fixed it for you. Wolverines are known for being tiny ferocious animals, and that also describes (feral) Logan.
Cause it’s actually a really important part of the character. Beyond that for representative reasons, how many short men are portrayed as strong, and to be respected and feared in the vein of a superhero. There’s plenty of variance between normal height and tall, and basically just maybe Spiderman and Wolverine on the other side.
I’m not that short but it’s come to my attention more and more how dismissive the culture is of basically any man below average height in lots of ways.
I think the article is referencing the Indian-Pakistani conflicts and tensions. I don’t think there’s a similar situation between Australia and Canada.
Oh, let's go that way. Do you guys remember Highlander? An Egyptian, with a Spanish name, a Japanese sword played by a Scott. And there was a Scottish character in this movie. Played by a French-American
I also don't see anyone complaining about Samuel Jackson playing Nick Furry, who was originally white. As long as the actor is good I don't think we should focus on that.
They even made Morgan Freeman play God multiple times and I'm pretty sure he did a great job.
Two things:
1. Saying sorry doesn’t magically make it okay;
2. Apology accepted. You’re very kind, and I wish you all the best!
*Dammit, the Canucks got me again!*
Out of curiosity, are there Pakistani actors in Bollywood?
A quick google search finds 47+ actors in Bollywood or Hindi Cinema who identify as being of Pakistani origin, so get the hell off your soap box.
The character is from space and lives in India, besides, Pakistan used to be part of India so in eternal time it’s been about a week since they were the same thing.
Yeah, I was about to say, even though they hate each other now, they were the same country. The largest human migration in history was when they split after WWII
Question. Is it offensive when a British person plays an American? I'm sure if you look hard enough you'll find Chinese actors playing other asian roles in their regional movies.
Michelle Yeoh is Malaysian and plays Chinese in half her roles. Takeshi Kaneshiro also starred in mostly Hong Kong produced films and is, you guessed it, Japanese. There's also a huuuuge historical and political beef between Japan and China to address the other reply you got.
And I live in China. Trust me, they don't give a fuck. To your point, I don't get offended as a British person when someone else plays a Brit. It's only rage-click-baity websites and the very most extreme of the American left wing that push this narrative.
That actors NEED to be the race/nationality of whoever they're portraying.
It literally only matters in historically accurate movies and documentaries.
As an Indian I will say: who cares and why does it matter? It’s not like all Indians will be getting paid if we had an Indian actor. Kumail got his money and he didn’t care
Tom Holland - Brit playing an American.
Benedict cucumber - Brit playing an American
Hugh Jackman - Australian playing Canadian
Chris Hemsworth - Australian playing a Nordic Viking
Scarlet Johansson - American playing a Russian
Florence Pugh - Brit playing a Russian
Elizabeth Olsen - American playing a.. Serbian?
The list goes on.
Technically he’s an alien robot… who lives in India. Next you’ll tell me Tropic thunder couldn’t be bothered to get an actual actor to do black face and so got Robert Downey Jr
No its not a valid point in anyway what so ever. Its just really stupid. Considering there are still people who were alive before Pakistan and India even were separate countrys. The country Pakistan is under a hundred years old. So "ethnicly" they are basicly the same. Complaining that a Pakistani is playing an Indian is like complaining that a norwegian is played by a sweed. But if it really was that important to get a true Indian, thats basicly meaningless considering there are over 705 different ethnic groups in Indian, so no one actor could represent them all anyways. And this is not even mentioning the fact that the guy don’t even play a fucking Indian anyway, his character was an enternal aka a imortal alien predateing human civilization.
TL;DR
Its not a valid point because the character he play is not actually Indian. And even if he hadd been it would be perfectly fine for a Pakistani to play an Indian.
He's not supposed to be an "Indian" in the Eternals, he's just a famous Bollywood actor. Pre-1947, the South Asian subcontinent was known as Hindustan and was established in the ~11th century. Kingo is 7000 years old, so even if he represents an ethnicity from that area, it doesn't really matter when it comes down to the current modern day borders.
Funny thing. Pakistan was part of India until 1947. So technically Pakistanis were Indians. So…. Yeah. Ms. Marvel actually taught me something and made me learn more lol.
I mean I’m Irish and if we had an English dude playing the *only* Irish guy in a piece I’d be extremely pissed unless he was literally going to Daniel Day Lewis in *In The Name of the Father* levels of crushing it.
It's called acting... and you pretend to be SOMEONE ELSE...
Grow up with this "characters have to be the same ethnicity, color or whatever".
Complain if he/she didn't play the part satisfactorily.
From my work, I knew a dozen of Indian and Pakistani colleagues. You guys should know more than anybody else how close you are and how it is exclusively the white man fault that you are apart. I really wish for all my Indian and Pakistani friends to just accept that they were a unit before, and they can just stop the whole hate each other shit.
It never ceases to annoy me that a fucking French-American actor plays the Highlander and the foreign character is played by an actual Scottish actor. No justice for my people
As a pakistani myself im saying that pakistanis are literally indians but with extra steps. And if you've seen Ms.Marvel, you'll know that i mean "extra steps" in a literal sense
Everett Ross and Doctor Strange are American characters played by English actors “because Marvel were too lazy to actually find 2 American guys out of 300 million people to play an American character. 🙄
To be fair, he is American Citizen and Marvel is American company. Also Kingo is a cosmic-powered member of the community of genetically engineered Eternals. Created by the Celestials in the World Forge. There was no India at the time he was created LOL
That criticism is more valid for Silicone Valley show. This movie he is an alien.
on second thought this could be valid if Marvel tried to appeal and market it as Indian actor. Did they?
He was not Indian actually. HE WAS A FRICKING ETERNAL WHO LIVED IN INDIA FOR A BRIEF MOMENT. God please just watch the movie once before writing whatever you like
he doesn’t play an “indian”. his backstory dates back to the 1930’s prior to partition, during the British Raj, when Pakistanis and Indians all lived under the British crown and were all still considered Indian.
Fuck that you cast who you want who gives a fuck if everyone playing a role is exactly the person they're playing
It's called acting not roleplaying yourself for fun in a make believe world
Source:
https://www.reddit.com/r/shittymoviedetails/comments/13i3nme/kumail_nanjiani_a_pakistani_actor_plays_the_role/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Look another one but reverse
https://www.reddit.com/r/shittymoviedetails/comments/13lr52a/in_the_tv_show_ms_marvel2022_an_indian_actor/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
The character isn't Indian though, he's an alien/synthetic being created by Celestials
It wouldn’t make headlines if they were honest…
It’s a reddit post sparking a conversation. No headlines were made.
I’m not talking about the result but the intention of the wording
It's a post from r/shittymoviedetails fyi, it's not sparking anything
But his secret identity was as an indian actor
And Henry Cavill is a British guy who played a space alien brought up in America. Acting.
And rdj once played a guy disguised as a guy playing a guy or something
WHAT DO YOU MEAN, “YOU PEOPLE?!”
Classic Chaplin quote.
Have you seen his Chaplin movie (Chaplin (1992))? Pretty good.
He was a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude!
That was actually a trade worked out between the u.s. and u.k. A Britt plays Superman and an american playes Sherlock Holmes.
And that Brit then also played Sherlock Holmes which means RDJ has to play Superman in the new DCU now, I think.
We have had TWO British Spider-Men.
You're an embarrassment!
2 of our 3 Peter Parker’s were British.
No that was his cover identity, what he pretended to be so that people wouldn't find out about his real/secret identity, a multi-thousand-year old super powered being from space
Yes, because it's secret, you can fake it.
If I had to make the choice, I would rather be Indian than Pakistani as well. Even Ms Marvel with its strong Pakistani tone filmed its Karachi scenes in Thailand.
I feel like you have a choice to make, and it how human your going to be when approaching the topic. Humans are the most genetically simular beings known on the face of the planet. That means anything could have been reversed, and It would all be the same anyway.
Except in this case it would literally be the same because they are divided by religion and politics, not ethnicity.
Right
Then then should have found a synthetic being created by celestial to play him. They’re sorely underrepresented. Stop human-washing Hollywood!
Kingo is older than Bharat though so does it matter? In the movie he was Kingo before India was India
I mean , if we go deeper...."Kingo" is a corruptive name of "Kingu" , which is a mesopotamian god. So , you could say a pakistani actor portraying a mesopotamian , while still not the right etnicity , is still closer than an indian.
You couldn't because it doesn't matter. Eternals don't have nationalities.
Correct! Also, humans are humans! Not black or brown or Pakistani or Indi, just humans. It's scientifically proven that we all share 99% of our genetic code with each other, regardless of nationalities or ethnicity.
99% is an understatement. We share 99% of our DNA with a lettuce
Geneticist here - this false. We share just less than 99% with chimpanzees, 98% with gorillas, 97% with orangutans - and the number becomes smaller the more diverged the species considered. We share about 70% with gastropods (slugs and the like), 45% with insects, and maybe 25% with plants...
I will take this as another reminder not to trust the first result on google every time
No worries! To be fair it really depends on how you define what it means to 'share DNA' - the percentages I used are roughly what you'd get from looking at the level of sequence divergence. If you were use to a more lenient metric - such as what proportion of protein encoding genes we'd share - you could say that plants and animals share about 50-60% of their genes. It's possible the website you were using was referencing the DNA sequence of a particular gene or set of genes - there are some genes which are somewhat highly conserved across all Eukaryotes, or (to a lesser extent) across all living things.
You are knowledgeable AND merciful, oh wise one!
But instead to trust the random Reddit person?
Huh, why would someone lie on the internet?
We are pretty close to pigs to, right?
Did my wife send you? I said I will do the dishes, and I *will!!* Just, you know, tomorrow.
(yes...ssshhhh) 🐷
Did you ever stop to think that the comment you are responding so rudely to might have been written by a broccoli? DiD yOu KnOw ThAt *geneticists* share 99% of their *conclusions* with *frogs*!?! Because you both are great at jumping blindly to them!!!! (please read this out loud in a wildly condescending voice while flailing your arms around dramatically for the full effect)
Good point, we are more like 99.6 with a 0.4 percent variation, which accounts for about 12 million base pairs of human beings. The ratio in which humans are similar to each other is by far greater than any other being known to humanity. What this essentially means is that there are no separate breeds of human like there are separate breeds of chimpanzees and dogs. Humans are a convergant species, meaning our late ancestors such as Neanderthal and Denisovan have breed into the gene pool to the point that their leniage is completely diluted with human DNA.
The UK even had a lettuce as Prime Minister for 49 days because we are so similar.
Ya, I always assumed that they were "ethnicity-less" in the MCU canon. I mean they are also manufactured beings too.
It's not a Mesopotamien though, it's an Alien from space who different human civilisations worshipped. He looked like that at the beginning of the movie, before there was a Mesopotamian civilisation.
Their names are just names.
The meme is stupid io several levels. Kingo is not Indian, he is an Eternal that was living there. The Eternals were modelled after various ethnicities around Earth and were on Earth before either India or Pakistan existed.
Or he is just an actor doing a job?
He’s an actor, acting like an actor. The post almost presumes that he has to be Indian because only Indians are allowed to be actors in Bollywood. I’m not sure if it’s meta or hypocrisy, or really worth thinking about at all.
Get this. Hugh Jackman is from Australia. He plays Wolwerine who is canadian. I don't see anyone complaining about that.
he's also 6 foot 3 inches tall, an entire foot taller than Wolverine is in the comics.
Yeah! How dare he be so tall and handsome! They didn't even try to be honest!
Wolverine is not supposed to be tall. It's a defining trait of the character.
He is the best and worst thing that happened to wolverine. Logan is supposed to be a short hairy man with a complex about it which plays into the “love triangle” in that he really doesn’t see himself as a match for Jean. Being Hunkzilla from junk land kinda blows through the nuance of his character. Also the reason colossus picks him up and throws him at people only works if he’s 5’1, it’s weird if he’s 6’2
I actually have heard people complain about this lolol
Tbf it's a valid argument when he's supposed to be portraying a little unstoppable toad of a man.
>a little unstoppable toad of a man. I will never not use this to describe wolverine from now on
Toad is a whole different dude.
You know what happens when lightning strikes a toad?
The same thing that happens to everything else
>a little unstoppable wolverine of a man. Fixed it for you. Wolverines are known for being tiny ferocious animals, and that also describes (feral) Logan.
Cause it’s actually a really important part of the character. Beyond that for representative reasons, how many short men are portrayed as strong, and to be respected and feared in the vein of a superhero. There’s plenty of variance between normal height and tall, and basically just maybe Spiderman and Wolverine on the other side. I’m not that short but it’s come to my attention more and more how dismissive the culture is of basically any man below average height in lots of ways.
It does sorta bother me. He’s not small enough for the fastball special.
And Bradley Cooper blatantly pretends to be a raccoon. But where is the outrage?
Get this. Chris Hemsworth is from Australia. He plays Thor who is Asgardian. I don't see anyone complaining about that.
There is a maniac who seeks to end us all.
No. He's just a redditor.
Yeah, Thor's just overreacting
Heimdall!
I think the article is referencing the Indian-Pakistani conflicts and tensions. I don’t think there’s a similar situation between Australia and Canada.
The emus were supplied by Canadian arms corporations!
My uncle fought in the emu war, said you could tell they were coming because they smelled of tim Hortons.
Rumour has it that Canada refuses to export maple syrup to Australia. Tensions are high.
True. This is for sure an outrage and I want heads.
Well I am now. /s
Oh, let's go that way. Do you guys remember Highlander? An Egyptian, with a Spanish name, a Japanese sword played by a Scott. And there was a Scottish character in this movie. Played by a French-American
They both have the Queen on their money so is there really any difference? (sarcasm)
I also don't see anyone complaining about Samuel Jackson playing Nick Furry, who was originally white. As long as the actor is good I don't think we should focus on that. They even made Morgan Freeman play God multiple times and I'm pretty sure he did a great job.
Even crazier, in the comics, Kingo wears Japanese samurai armor...
Well yeah, samurai armour looks cool
Depends on the era, some of the earlier ones look like they're trying to cosplay someone from Minecraft
I first saw this meme on r/shittymoviedetails, so it was intended to be a troll post that someone took a bit too seriously 🙄 Edit: mispeling
Honestly disgusted that they didn’t cast an Eternal to represent one in this documentary
They also didn't cast a Celestial to play Ego. Smh these lazy casting directors.
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I was furious and in tears when I saw Gamora being portrayed by a black woman instead of by either Greedo or Kermit The Frog.
Maclunky!
Probably.
Bantha poodoo!
Well… maybe they should have gotten someone green. Can we find this?
So Ryan Reynolds (a Canadian) shouldn’t play any US characters?
And Hugh Jackman (aussie) shouldn't play any canadian character.
Wait til you hear of Canadians playing U.S. citizens.
Do *not* get me started on the “Maple-washing” of American roles. Yes, they’re polite people, but it’s just not right.
Sorry eh
Two things: 1. Saying sorry doesn’t magically make it okay; 2. Apology accepted. You’re very kind, and I wish you all the best! *Dammit, the Canucks got me again!*
Mother Canuckers!
Kudos for “maple-washing”. It’s canon now.
"Depsite only making up 6% of North americas population, canadians..."
Are very sorry eh?
Make up for 69% of apologies sais throughout the year
"They're polite, but it's not right" Ya'll even got a protest slogan. We're ruined.
Hey, they let an Australian play Wolverine! No American can understand that pain!
Or Brits playing Americans
Or Americans playing Brits
Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins \*shudder\*
Amazing actor, loved his character, but that accent was horrible.
Yeah nice man by all accounts but he murdered that accent....
House M.D.
He's not Indian. He's a robot designed by gods
Kumail was designed by gods? Kinda makes sense, given his looks /hj
So he's a robot in disguise?
Out of curiosity, are there Pakistani actors in Bollywood? A quick google search finds 47+ actors in Bollywood or Hindi Cinema who identify as being of Pakistani origin, so get the hell off your soap box.
They used to be in Bollywood but not anymore due to certain situations
Or he is just a god actor, and that's why they hired him
Well and Pakistan was part of India within living memory.
The character is from space and lives in India, besides, Pakistan used to be part of India so in eternal time it’s been about a week since they were the same thing.
Yeah, I was about to say, even though they hate each other now, they were the same country. The largest human migration in history was when they split after WWII
Question. Is it offensive when a British person plays an American? I'm sure if you look hard enough you'll find Chinese actors playing other asian roles in their regional movies.
Michelle Yeoh is Malaysian and plays Chinese in half her roles. Takeshi Kaneshiro also starred in mostly Hong Kong produced films and is, you guessed it, Japanese. There's also a huuuuge historical and political beef between Japan and China to address the other reply you got. And I live in China. Trust me, they don't give a fuck. To your point, I don't get offended as a British person when someone else plays a Brit. It's only rage-click-baity websites and the very most extreme of the American left wing that push this narrative.
I hate this trend so fucking much. Edit: actors do not need to be the same race or nationality of fictional characters. End of story.
What trend?
That actors NEED to be the race/nationality of whoever they're portraying. It literally only matters in historically accurate movies and documentaries.
I thought you were talking about the opposite. Carry on.
Oh you're right I see why
No, this is because Kumail is a good actor and people like him
He was the best thing about that movie.
Pakistani Denzel
Tom Holland...
Ik it’s fucked up that they didn’t get an actor who can actually swing on webs
Absolutely the problem.
Op, how is it a valid point?
As an Indian I will say: who cares and why does it matter? It’s not like all Indians will be getting paid if we had an Indian actor. Kumail got his money and he didn’t care
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And spider-man is played by a british guy, people find anything to complain about these days…
Kingo was a robot. Robots don't have nationalities.
Why don’t people just try shutting the fuck up for once?
Oh man I am so tired of this shit
Wait until they hear about Christian Bale
Tom Holland - Brit playing an American. Benedict cucumber - Brit playing an American Hugh Jackman - Australian playing Canadian Chris Hemsworth - Australian playing a Nordic Viking Scarlet Johansson - American playing a Russian Florence Pugh - Brit playing a Russian Elizabeth Olsen - American playing a.. Serbian? The list goes on.
Technically he’s an alien robot… who lives in India. Next you’ll tell me Tropic thunder couldn’t be bothered to get an actual actor to do black face and so got Robert Downey Jr
Thank you! This comment is way too far down...
We're just ignoring the fact that we have 2 brits playing Americans? 3 if you count vision.
Op has to be trolling
No its not a valid point in anyway what so ever. Its just really stupid. Considering there are still people who were alive before Pakistan and India even were separate countrys. The country Pakistan is under a hundred years old. So "ethnicly" they are basicly the same. Complaining that a Pakistani is playing an Indian is like complaining that a norwegian is played by a sweed. But if it really was that important to get a true Indian, thats basicly meaningless considering there are over 705 different ethnic groups in Indian, so no one actor could represent them all anyways. And this is not even mentioning the fact that the guy don’t even play a fucking Indian anyway, his character was an enternal aka a imortal alien predateing human civilization. TL;DR Its not a valid point because the character he play is not actually Indian. And even if he hadd been it would be perfectly fine for a Pakistani to play an Indian.
Wait until they find out Pakistan was part of India until fairly recently and the ethnicity is the same and it’s all part of the Indian subcontinent
He's literally from space.
He plays an immortal robot, not an Indian
He's not supposed to be an "Indian" in the Eternals, he's just a famous Bollywood actor. Pre-1947, the South Asian subcontinent was known as Hindustan and was established in the ~11th century. Kingo is 7000 years old, so even if he represents an ethnicity from that area, it doesn't really matter when it comes down to the current modern day borders.
Funny thing. Pakistan was part of India until 1947. So technically Pakistanis were Indians. So…. Yeah. Ms. Marvel actually taught me something and made me learn more lol.
People are just upset that he represented Bollywood dance numbers poorly. Bollywood dance numbers are way better than what eternals showed us.
But like… didn’t Pakistan and India used to be one country and was only separated like 70 years ago?
> Bjorloff Beornson, a Norweigan actor, plays the role of a Finnish man in *Movie* Please just shut up
Well, I mean, He's not Indian, technically, is he? He's a fucking space robot made by gods.
I mean I’m Irish and if we had an English dude playing the *only* Irish guy in a piece I’d be extremely pissed unless he was literally going to Daniel Day Lewis in *In The Name of the Father* levels of crushing it.
Honest question - do you guys think india and china get this concerned about authentic ethnicity / diversity in their respective industries?
Kingo isn’t even an Indian. He’s a freaking alien.
Eternals are not from Earth, they don't have nationalities or races. This post is stupid.
He did a great job
It's called acting... and you pretend to be SOMEONE ELSE... Grow up with this "characters have to be the same ethnicity, color or whatever". Complain if he/she didn't play the part satisfactorily.
You do realise he has no nationality, he’s an inter dimensional robot
I think you should shut up
It’s crazy, sometimes actors act as different characters
TIL Indians come from space.
He was just a brown eternal who decided to live in India. Not someone of indian descent lol
I dunno. Lots of Brits play Germans, Americans play Ugandan presidents and on it goes. Way too much attention given to this.
Wait till this guy hears they decided to make an AUSTRALIAN play a Scandinavian Norse God!!! Abhorrent!!!
From my work, I knew a dozen of Indian and Pakistani colleagues. You guys should know more than anybody else how close you are and how it is exclusively the white man fault that you are apart. I really wish for all my Indian and Pakistani friends to just accept that they were a unit before, and they can just stop the whole hate each other shit.
It never ceases to annoy me that a fucking French-American actor plays the Highlander and the foreign character is played by an actual Scottish actor. No justice for my people
Don’t a bunch of British and Canadians play American characters? Yeah this isn’t much of a point.
As a pakistani myself im saying that pakistanis are literally indians but with extra steps. And if you've seen Ms.Marvel, you'll know that i mean "extra steps" in a literal sense
Eternals are not from Earth, they don't have nationalities or races. This post is stupid.
My Grandmother told me, I don't care what they teach you in school, Kingo was Indian.
Technically, the character is an immortal alien robot. If they found someone neon green, it would be more racially accurate.
Or… and hear me out…. Who gives a shit?
How can he be an Indian Eternal when he came to Earth before India existed? JFC do you people stop and think for two seconds?
He’s not even a real sentient pseudo robot AI creation in real life.
I couldn't even tell, he's that good of an actor!
Just like Thor is Norwegian but has an Aussie accent with a Welsh dad, and a Brit brother.
India and Pakinstan were one country until pretty recently. They are related ethnicities within the two countries.
Everett Ross and Doctor Strange are American characters played by English actors “because Marvel were too lazy to actually find 2 American guys out of 300 million people to play an American character. 🙄
Who. Gives. A. Fuck.
To be fair, he is American Citizen and Marvel is American company. Also Kingo is a cosmic-powered member of the community of genetically engineered Eternals. Created by the Celestials in the World Forge. There was no India at the time he was created LOL
Ok as long as Dinesh gets fewer points than Gilfoyle.
And it’s not like Pakistan and India were the same country until recently or anything
That criticism is more valid for Silicone Valley show. This movie he is an alien. on second thought this could be valid if Marvel tried to appeal and market it as Indian actor. Did they?
This is the same energy as complaining that they cast a white American to play a white British person.
Pakistan was once a part of India, and since he’s an Eternal he’s been around for longer than either nation so it doesn’t really matter 💀
He's playing an alien artificial lifeform, he has no race/nationality
Wait til you find out they cast humans to play aliens!
He was not Indian actually. HE WAS A FRICKING ETERNAL WHO LIVED IN INDIA FOR A BRIEF MOMENT. God please just watch the movie once before writing whatever you like
he doesn’t play an “indian”. his backstory dates back to the 1930’s prior to partition, during the British Raj, when Pakistanis and Indians all lived under the British crown and were all still considered Indian.
Wait so you’re telling me that the character of Yoda ISN’T played a hairy green midget???? Life is ruined.
That dude has the most punchable face ever
There is so many people with jaundice and they didnt brother casting one to play as Adam Warlock
I mean, they're basically the same and also look similar. Pakistan was once part of India. P.s. I am an Indian
Fuck that you cast who you want who gives a fuck if everyone playing a role is exactly the person they're playing It's called acting not roleplaying yourself for fun in a make believe world
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/shittymoviedetails/comments/13i3nme/kumail_nanjiani_a_pakistani_actor_plays_the_role/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button Look another one but reverse https://www.reddit.com/r/shittymoviedetails/comments/13lr52a/in_the_tv_show_ms_marvel2022_an_indian_actor/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Beside the fact none of those characters really exist, it’s called “acting” for a reason. Stop this nonsense.