Earlier today, the Internet discovered that comedian and actor Kumail Nanjiani, the star of Silicon Valley and The Big Sick, got jacked. And in case you forgot what the dude who once looked like a leafless twig while standing next to Dave Bautista’s girthy tree trunk, check it out below.
So, why all the new muscle? Evidently, Nanjiani has packed all this mass onto his otherwise small frame because of his commitment to Marvel’s upcoming film The Eternals, in which he plays the nearly-immortal non-human warrior Kingo Sunen. (He’s also starring alongside the likes of Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek, Kit Harington, and more.) Whether or not this is actually the case is unknown, but considering the rather beefy assortment of male actors whose frames have expanded due to their Marvel contracts, it’s an easy bet to make.
Anyways, Kumail’s radical transformation didn’t actually happen overnight, but since the photos he shared on Instagram were the first public indication that anything had happened, people just couldn’t deal with it. As a result, the wide array of reactions that popped up on Twitter and elsewhere on social media were as thirsty as they were funny.
https://twitter.com/hasanminhaj/status/1206736710639538182
https://twitter.com/SopanDeb/status/1206622731401416706
since yall think all brown folks look the same anyway feel free to confuse me for kumail nanjiani whenever you want now https://t.co/uTWRPqFtpU
— Simran Jeet Singh (@simran) December 16, 2019
Marvel fans: "Oh no! RDJ and Chris Evans are leaving the MCU. What are we going to do??"
Simu Liu and Kumail Nanjiani: "I think we can be of assistance…" pic.twitter.com/ztzFZiJ2oe
— Curtis Kimberlin Jr (@ckimberlinjr) December 16, 2019
https://twitter.com/GWillowWilson/status/1206632825413193728
My whole day has been thrown off by learning that Kumail Nanjiani is ridiculously jacked now
— Patrick Wyman (@Patrick_Wyman) December 16, 2019
Kumail works out at the same gym as I do so in a way this is a victory for both of us, equally pic.twitter.com/adVdEvipDn
— Chase Mitchell (@ChaseMit) December 16, 2019
has trump photoshopped his head on that picture of kumail yet
— Sarah Beattie (@nachosarah) December 16, 2019
https://twitter.com/drmattdambrosio/status/1206620141271666688
https://twitter.com/kathbarbadoro/status/1206621385386287105
https://twitter.com/sasimons/status/1206627910511157251
Though, to be honest, the best response came from Emily V. Gordon, co-writer of The Big Sick and Nanjiani’s wife.
https://twitter.com/emilyvgordon/status/1206664996031254530
Second place goes to Edgar Wright.
Re-do the second half of THE BIG SICK and have Kumail be buff when you wake up from the coma.
— edgarwright (@edgarwright) December 16, 2019