‘Ms. Marvel’s Iman Vellani shares the Marvel secret she discovered earlier than she was meant to

Ms. Marvel actor Iman Vellani dropped by The Tonight Present for a pleasant chat with Jimmy Fallon, during which she shared her love for Marvel’s superheroes, gushed about assembly Marvel Studios’ president Kevin Feige, and recounted how she acquired the lead function in Marvel’s newest superhero sequence.

“My aunt forwarded me a WhatsApp of the casting name,” stated Vellani. “Tremendous sketchy, I do not know what casting calls appear like. However I am like, obsessive about Marvel, obsessive about Ms. Marvel, learn all of the comics in highschool, dressed up as her on Halloween….

“I despatched in my self tape at like three a.m., wasn’t gonna do it. After which the subsequent day I get a name, they have been like, ‘Do you might have a lawyer? We wanna fly you to L.A.’ And I used to be like, ‘I’ve a math check, however can we like — we’ll determine this out!'”

Contemplating her character Kamela Khan is a large fan of superheroes as effectively, Vellani being such an enormous Marvel nerd may be very becoming.

Vellani additionally talked about discovering out Marvel secrets and techniques earlier than they’re made public, in addition to assembly Spider-Man actor Tom Holland for the primary time whereas half-dressed in her make-up trailer. Spoiler warning for anybody who hasn’t seen Spider-Man: No Manner Residence and has someway prevented all details about it.

“And he goes ‘So like, what’s your present even about?'” stated Vellani. “And I am like, ‘Oh, what’s Spider-Man [No Manner Residence] about?’ ‘Trigger I am attempting to be good with him. And he absolutely identical to exhibits me a photograph of like, him with Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire. And I used to be like, ‘Dude.'”

Ms. Marvel arrives June eight on Disney+.