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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Kumail Nanjiani Needed Therapy After Eternals Bombed · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: When an actor signs a deal to star in a massive,
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  Speaker 2: tent pole movie franchise, the assumption can often be that
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  Speaker 2: it will be a life changing, long term role, and
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  Speaker 2: Kumile Nan Johnny just admitted when that didn't end up
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  Speaker 2: being the case. With his work on the Marvel movie Eternals,
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  Speaker 2: it took a serious toll on him, he tells the
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  Speaker 2: Working It Out podcast. It came out, it got really
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  Speaker 2: bad reviews, and it didn't do well. It shattered me.
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  Speaker 2: That's when I realized I need to go to therapy
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  Speaker 2: to figure this out. I assume this is going to
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  Speaker 2: be my job for the next ten years. I saw it,
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  Speaker 2: not for six movies a video game at theme park. Right.
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  Speaker 2: I thought, I'll be doing Marvel movies every year, and
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  Speaker 2: in between I'll do my own little things. Not so
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  Speaker 2: much for me. What really hit me was realizing my
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  Speaker 2: self esteem was tied up in other people's reaction to
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  Speaker 2: my work. Kumile Nan Johnny there who next can be
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  Speaker 2: seen in Driver's Ed arriving September twelve.
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  Speaker 1: That's Direct from Hollywood