Rising star Iman Vellani plays the MCU’s first Muslim superhero in DisneyPlus’s ‘Ms Marvel’.
Ms Marvel is a superhero with a crucial difference. Born Kamala Khan, the 16-year-old Pakistani-American from Jersey City is Marvel’s first Muslim character to be the star of her own comic book – and her origin story is the focus of the new six-part Disney+ series.
Integral to its success is Iman Vellani, the 19-year-old Karachi-born, Ontario-raised Marvel super fan who makes a barnstorming screen debut as Kamala, imbuing the wide-eyed teenager with warmth, goofiness and vulnerability. We meet her as she is trying to persuade her strict parents to let her attend AvengerCon dressed as Captain Marvel with her best friend, Bruno .
So, my high school is across the street from a comic book shop. I was deeply obsessed with Iron Man and I just wanted to read more of thosecomic with Riri Williams, who’s also getting her own Disney+ show, and Ms Marvel was actually on the cover of that one. I was like, “Who is this brown person?” [Laughs] And I went down this rabbit hole of Ms Marvel comics and completely fell in love with her. I must have been 15 or 16.
And then you’ve said that you found out about this series through a forwarded message your aunt received on WhatsApp. Did you take it seriously? Not at all [laughs]. I didn’t know what casting calls look like. This one just said, “Ms Marvel Disney+ casting, send headshot and résumé here.” I thought it was really suspicious and I wasn’t going to do it, but my mum was like, “You never know.” So, I thought fine, I’ll send in the one photo I have of myself that’s semi professional and this very academic résumé. They sent back an NDA and three scenes.
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