“I think about this literally every day… right now I don’t want to meet him. I’ve been much better at not putting celebrities on pedestals and humanizing them, but I’m not ready to do that to RDJ just yet,” she shared Needle. Recently, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige praised Vellani’s commitment to the larger Marvel story, revealing that she carried a notebook full of ideas and comments with her. “Like Tom Holland and Peter Parker, Iman is a much bigger Marvel fan than we realized,” Feige told Empire Magazine. “[On set] she carries this Unabomber notebook with her everywhere, with her scribbles and ideas. And why don’t we want to listen to them? Not only because she plays the female lead, she would comment on the show online. So you better comment before the show ends and try to incorporate some of these ideas.” Besides Vellani, Ms. Starring Aramis Knight, Saagar Shaikh, Rish Shah, Matt Lintz, Zenobia Shroff and Mohan Kapur at Marvel. Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah directed the first and sixth episodes of the series. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy directed three more episodes while Meera Menon directed one. “The fact that the show is being made and they’re including this character in the MCU is [what’s important]Velani explained in a previous interview. “I don’t really have to go out of my way and talk about being Muslim and being Pakistani – it all comes out on the show. People seeing a person like me involved in a project this big, I think it’s quite inspiring.” Ms. Marvel is now streaming on Disney+.
