Last year Marvel Studios announced they were finally looking into doing something with their modern hit comic book Ms. Marvel. Two things, in fact…the character would be introduced to the MCU with her own Disney+ series, and then graduate into movies. Now they’ve
found the actress who will be putting on the mask and embiggening her fists: Iman Vellani.
Oh yeah, Iman Vellani….we remember her from….nothing, actually. In a rare move, Marvel Studios has filled a potentially major role with an actress that doesn’t have much experience in the industry beyond directing a short film. She’s fairly young at just 18, but so is Kamala Khan, the superheroine she’s protraying. She’s going to have this role for a while; no sense in having to deal with a 30-year-old Ms. Marvel this quickly.
Khan is a Muslim Pakistani-American who fangirls after superheroes. She’s obsessed with them, so the day she...
