He should really take a page from Michael Caine when he talked about Jaws 4.

I have never seen it but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.

He was paid well and got a year to transform his body. That’s a fair trade for a mediocre movie. Every actor has films like that in their career, and Eternals is just boring, not the worst movie ever.