‘Honored’ Ms. Marvel Actress ‘Freaked Out’ And Contacted Kevin Feige After Finale Reveal

Ms. Marvel has introduced us to two great new MCU characters, both of whom happen to be the same person. The first, of course, is Kamala Khan herself, a great new hero introduced in her own show. The second is her actress, Iman Vellani, the 19 year-old Marvel superfan who used to cosplay as Ms. Marvel, and is now playing her onscreen.

Vellani is hilarious because of how much she’s actively into Marvel and the MCU, growing up with the franchise as a kid. We’ve heard stories of her contacting Marvel head Kevin Feige to debate MCU canon directly, and now we have another fun story with the two of them.

Ms. Marvel finale spoilers follow.

The biggest reveal in the finale is when Bruno informs Kamala her powers are not merely based on her Djinn history, but that she has a “mutation” in her genes. In case that wasn’t clear enough, the show plays a riff of the X-Men theme.

This is a dramatic departure from Kamala’s comic origins where she was actually an Inhuman, a superpowered race of aliens living among us on earth. But the MCU already did the Inhumans with an Agents of SHIELD plotline and a separately, horrific Inhumans series. And it’s instead looking toward its mutant-based X-Men future, of which Kamala appears to be a part, changing her origins from the comics even further than what the show had already done.

Vellani, the huge Marvel fan, was in shock, according to a Marvel.com interview.

“They sent me, and only me, the draft [of the final episode], and I immediately freaked out,” Vellani said. “I emailed Kevin Feige in all caps. I was like, are you doing this like for real? Are you sure? I’m so honored! I was like yelling at him through an email. I was freaking out. This is the biggest deal in the world, and the fact that it’s happening in our show is crazy.”

The line was so secretive it wasn’t even in the original script, says the person who said the line, Bruno actor Matt Lintz:

“They didn’t even have it in [the script],” Lintz said. “I remember I was having a conversation about it and [the directors] were like, ‘Yeah, you say this crazy thing.’ They wouldn’t even tell me what it was! I was like, ‘What’s the deal here?’ They were very secretive about that whole thing.”

The two said they had trouble filming this scene because they kept giggling over what a big deal the reveal was.

“Iman could not get through a take because…she was beaming, like, out of character beaming,” Nakie actress Yasmeen Fletcher said. “They had to cut and refilm that so many times.”

God, Vellani is so great. Cannot wait to see more from her in The Marvels and I guess…Phase 5 X-Men? Exciting stuff.

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