
WandaVision had come out, and she said ‘What?’ out loud and she fell to the floor because she was so excited about what she had just seen. On set, Vellani could also be found watching Marvel movies and shows, and Zenobia Shroff, who plays Muneeba Khan, recalled one time she watched Vellani freak out about an episode of Marvel Studios’ WandaVision. “That was her test to see if she likes me or not.”
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“I think one of the first days, it may have been the first or second day I met her, she was like, which movie do you like better - Infinity War or Endgame?” Saagar Shaikh, who plays Kamala’s older brother Aamir, laughs.

Namely, what’s your favorite Marvel Studios movie? Marvel talk is popular among all the cast and crews for the MCU, but it was especially heightened on the set of Ms.
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I really respect and admire him and I can speak to him now in full sentences, which is great.”īut not only did Vellani have questions for Feige, but she also had questions for the rest of her castmates. “It was very sweet and he answered the first 40 the next day over a Zoom call. Actually, Vellani presented him with a four-page list of 72 questions about the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Feige’s day-to-day duties that she wanted clarity on. He's like, is this girl going to talk to me or something?”ĭon’t worry, they eventually talked. I was just hiding behind Adil and Kevin keeps peering over. So, we go meet him and the same thing happens. And he's like, oh, let's go meet him together. Adil was like, what's wrong with you? And I'm like, Kevin Feige's downstairs. Then they called me for my scene and I was like a zombie walking to do the scene. “This poor man was trying to talk to me, and me being so awkward made him super awkward, and we were just awkward together. They say never meet your heroes, and Vellani learned this in real-time the hard way. I fully lost all brain function, all body function, I was a mannequin around him. I look up and it's just his eyes because he was wearing a mask, a hat, fully covered. “He comes and Sana is like, there's someone here to meet you.

“My first time meeting Kevin was a little rough,” Vellani recalls. However, meeting him for the first time was not as smooth as the star hoped for. In interviews, Vellani has not shied away from talking about how much she respects and admires Feige. We'll do a little, a little, not everything.’ So that's how it went,” Arbi continues with a laugh. It's more Kevin is like, ‘easy there, easy.” He’s like this wise uncle, saying, ‘OK guys, OK, calm down. We want to do everything she wanted to do. “It was challenging, not necessarily to us, because we're on board with her. According to Arbi and his directing partner, Director and Executive Producer Bilall Fallah, Vellani actually came to set with a little notebook full of questions and also suggestions - some of which were meant for them and the episode they were directing, and some of them were actually meant for the man in charge, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige.

She knows so much,” Director and Executive Producer Adil El Arbi tells. She's a Marvel expert, an encyclopedia of Marvel history. “Iman is the biggest Marvel fan you can imagine. Talking to everyone in the cast and the crew behind the scenes, they all in unison agree that Vellani is absolutely in the top 1% of Marvel aficionados. She belongs in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.” “But definitely, Iman brought her own spin to it, of course, because she's her own person…She reads everything, and she's such a huge fan. Like it's just so interchangeable at this point,” Executive Producer Sana Amanat tells. Both girls have a strong love and admiration for the Avengers and are absolute fangirls for all things Marvel - honestly, the biggest difference is that while Kamala is Captain Marvel’s #1 fan, Vellani is the ultimate Iron Man stan. And no, Iman doesn’t have any form of superpowers, but she’s just like Kamala through and through. Marvel, as Iman’s story lines up with Kamala’s story a little too perfectly. The stars completely aligned when it came to casting the young actress in the role for Marvel Studios’ Ms. But even more impressive, Kamala Khan is Iman Vellani.
