Eternals: Who is Kingo and What are His Talents? Is He an Actor?


The Eternals is one big dysfunctional family with members, although from the same race, has different skills and characteristics making them unique in their own way. One of them is Kingo, to be portrayed by Kumail Nanjiani in the upcoming debut of the age-old band of superheroes in the MCU. Who is he and based on the trailers, he looks as if he is extremely talented? Is he an actor? He always has a cameraman behind him.

Eternals: Who is Kingo and What are His Talents? Is He an Actor?

Eternals: Who is Kingo and What are His Talents? Is He an Actor?
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Eternals: Who is Kingo and What are His Talents? Is He an Actor?

Kingo Sunen is one of the stronger ones, the brute force among the team. In various trailers, he shoots blasters from his hands. In the comics, he is the skilled swordsman of the team and he became a samurai fighter resulting for him to be a famed action star in Japan. His preference for fighting is like that of humans and he does not rely on his cosmic powers as an Eternal.

While he had limited appearances in the comics, it was revealed that he hailed from Japan where he was able to build his love for humans watching them and being with them in the mountains of Hokkaido. While it seems that the movie will not be following this, Kingo would be hailing from Pakistan, still an actor, and still, he remains to be one who cares a lot about humans.

In the movie adaptation, Kingo is described by Kumail Nanjiani as someone who is a little self-involved. As per his co-star Salma Hayek, Kingo loves attention that he is always in the center of the spotlight. Being a Bollywood actor, he always has a cameraman with him wherever he goes, he even had a dance production in the teasers. He annoys Sprite, and even Druig in the trailers.

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All in all, it seems that Kingo is one of the Eternals who lived an own path before Ikaris calls them together with the warning from Ajak that they only have seven days before an Earth-shattering phenomenon happens.

See the debut of Kingo and his amazing Bollywood dance moves in Eternals on November 5, 2021.

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