{"id":24496,"date":"2022-05-30T12:15:04","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T12:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/kumail-nanjianis-character-debuts-in-star-wars-obi-wan-kenobi\/"},"modified":"2022-05-30T12:15:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T12:15:04","slug":"kumail-nanjianis-character-debuts-in-star-wars-obi-wan-kenobi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/?p=24496","title":{"rendered":"Kumail Nanjiani&#8217;s character debuts in Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kumail Nanjiani is conquering the Hollywood one step at a time. He was the first Pakistani-American actor who entered the Marvel Cinematic Universe in <em>Eternals<\/em> as Kingo, and now he has achieved another milestone. Nanjiani has stepped into another major film franchise i.e. <em>Star Wars.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The actor is now a part of the <em>Star Wars<\/em>: <em>Obi-Wan Kenobi<\/em>, with his character, Haja Estree, appearing in the Disney+ show\u2019s second episode. While Nanjiani has admitted he was \u201cintimidated\u201d acting opposite Ewan McGregor when the actor was in Obi-Wan mode, that bit of discomfort paled in comparison to all good things he experienced on this project. Now the actor is even happier about getting to be part of <em>Obi-Wan Kenobi<\/em> because he finally got the upper hand on his cousin with the better action figure collection.<\/p>\n<div id=\"bordeaux-static-slot-6\" class=\"bordeaux-slot\" data-feat-ref=\"bordeaux-feat-id-95\"><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">&#8220;I am so overwhelmed right now. My cousin had a better collection of action figures when we were kids. I was so jealous. I think I finally pulled ahead,&#8221; he wrote. And any kid from the early to late 80s will relate to his sentiments.<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-feat-ref=\"bordeaux-feat-id-95\"><\/div>\n<div data-feat-ref=\"bordeaux-feat-id-95\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I am so overwhelmed right now.<\/p>\n<p>My cousin had a better collection of action figures when we were kids. I was so jealous.<\/p>\n<p>I think I finally pulled ahead. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/93roeUMuXu\">pic.twitter.com\/93roeUMuXu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kumail Nanjiani (@kumailn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kumailn\/status\/1530235282708017152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 27, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Getting to participate in a <em>Star Wars<\/em> project, whether it\u2019s in front of the camera or behind the scenes, is a big enough deal on its own, but Kumail Nanjiani scored something extra: his own poster. His character, Haja is on <em>Obi-Wan Kenobi&#8217;s<\/em> promotional material.<\/p>\n<p>Playing a <em>Star Wars<\/em> character, namely one who received their own poster, is definitely the superior accomplishment. As a bonus, Haja gets to have Darth Vader\u2019s silhouette in the stylistic sun covering his left eye.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Nanjiani shared in an interview with <em>Entertainment Weekly<\/em>, how Haja Estree is someone who works on the streets of Daiyu, and he\u2019s a con-man only concerned with looking out for himself. Upon crossing paths with Obi-Wan Kenobi though, his life is thrown for a loop.<\/p>\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/kumail-nanjiani-wears-umar-sayeed-sherwani-at-eternals-premiere\/\">Kumail Nanjiani wears Umar Sayeed sherwani at \u2018Eternals\u2019 premiere<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"paragraph\">\n<p>&#8220;His name is Haja and he&#8217;s this guy who works on the streets of Daiyu, which is this new <em>Star Wars<\/em> location that we haven&#8217;t seen before that&#8217;s absolutely gorgeous. And he&#8217;s the guy who&#8217;s worked really hard to stay out of the bigger conflicts at play. He just kind of wants to be his own guy. Survival for him is all that matters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_82269\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-82269\" style=\"width: 684px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload_inited  wp-image-82269\" src=\"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/images\/2022\/05\/index.jpg\" alt=\"Kumail\" width=\"684\" height=\"342\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-82269\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kumail Nanjiani as Haja Estree<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kumail Nanjiani is living the dream, precisely the dream of every fanboy ever and he is indeed working hard for it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"paragraph\">\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s this sort of con-man guy who cons people for money. That&#8217;s what&#8217;s important to him. And then he has a run-in with Obi-Wan and suddenly he sort of gets stuck in the bigger conflicts at play, which is the thing that he really tries to avoid. So he is this street-level con-man guy who then gets embroiled in stuff that&#8217;s way too big for him. And he has to make a choice,&#8221; he explained.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the trailer of the series here:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe title=\"Obi-Wan Kenobi | Official Trailer | Disney+\" width=\"1260\" height=\"709\" data-trx-lazyload-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3Yh_6_zItPU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The limited series premiered on 27th May on Disney+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":24497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,37],"tags":[1178],"class_list":["post-24496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-news","tag-eternalskumail-nanjianistar-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}