You're listening to Comedy Central. Please welcome in Balani, Miss Marvel, welcome to the Daily Show. Thank you, thank you. Are you used to that yet? The fact that you are miss Marveled and not just miss Moveled, by the way, not just mis Marvel, but you are officially currently the most liked show on Rotten Tomorrows in the Marvel universe. How does it feel? It feels great. It's weird that like people who doubt it ask like we're the underdogs now.
So the amount of actually he's in a sentence, Oh, it's actually pretty good. Actually I think I'm liking it. So that's that's my favorite part. Yeah, you've been a fan for a long time. A hot minute. Yeah, I want to know. I want to know how, because everyone has a story about how they became a fan of one of the Marvel characters that not every but he knows about. Oh, I mean I was like six when iron Man came out, so the MC has always been
in my life. And then like my high school's right across from a comic book shop, and I have the fattest crush on Robert Downey Jr. So I just needed more iron Man. So I was like constantly reading more vis iron Man, and then I picked up iron Heart and threw her. I found Kamala and I was like, oh my god, Brown Preston, who's this and fell in love with her. It seems like, I mean, it feels like you were made for this character. It was crazy. I felt like the comics were written about me, for
me and only me. Likely it really does. Like how many stories can you say when you go like, oh, who is this character? Okay? You know here you have this girl who was born to immigrants from Pakistan and then she's like living in this different world and it was like you like you you that that's that's wild, like Muslim superhero fully crazy. I you were just Marvel for every Halloween. That's what I would do. I dressed up as around how when I fully manifested this? Yeah,
do people know who you are? No? I went to school and I was so excited. I had like my grandma helped me stitch the costume. And I went to school and everyone's like, cool flash costume? Man, are you kidding me? The lightning bull doesn't mean flash? But yeah, I had to go across the street by us Marvel comic and just carry it with me so people knew who I was. You had to reference the You realize that's never gonna happen again now, right. I mean that's
one of the humor stories of all time. Yeah, you know, the story is really great because some people, you know, I feel like it's a different world. They'd be like, oh, how do you have a Muslim superhero? And you know she's some Pakistan away, But everyone doesn't seem to understand that every hero comes from somewhere and they just have their story and that it's just like normal for them. I love how the show is seamless. I love how
it's just her story and she's a superhero. Yeah. I think we've really done with the comics Dion and organically incorporate wating diversity into her story. And it's not something that just like, it's not personality being Muslim or being Pakistani.
It's she's this Avengers loving fanfake writing dork who just happens to be Muslim in Pakistani, and that side of her kind of you know, guides her as it's her moral code and and it uplifts her and elevates her story in a really unique way that we really haven't seen in the m c U, so I think that's cool.
It's super cool, but power of the cool as well. Okay, that was something I was intreated by because like, like I remember seeing some of the old comics of Miss Marvel and and she had like stretching abilities, and I know you can't give anything away, but you know you have different powers in the beginning, it's like you can you can like shape shift things and you can you know, is that are she going to get like more powers or is more powers? Yeah, there's purple light coming out
of that. I'm not being ungrateful. I'm just saying that sounded like I was just asking if she's gonna get like different? Are they like things that you don't want to tell me anything? I see you it promis today And then Disney told me they're like, man's not going to tell you anything. If you ask her sworn oaths to Kevin bum like, you will not get a Tom Holland out of me. Nothing coming out, spoilers, no scoilers, whatsoever. So this is just the beginning. You realize this, you all,
I mean, this is such a fun wild story. You you you you got this role in one of the craziest ways possible, because I heard a rumor that you heard about this from like a family member. They didn't call you directly What's app, which is like funny because like brown people thrive on what'sapp. So like the fact that this happened through a What'sapp forward. My aunt was a part of some brown group chat that she never opens.
And when she opened it, and someone had forwarded this casting call and she sent it to me and I'm like, look, this is what a scam is. Um, we don't I'm not an actor. I can't. Like it was fully a blank page. I said, send headshown and resume here and this Marvel casting. I was like okay, um. And then they sent self tape and asides for the self tape and and n d A and I was like, oh my god, it's real. I know exactly which comic books they pulled these scenes from. And so I wasn't gonna
do it just out of like sheer fear of failure. Yeah, And then like three am hit the night it was due. I was like, oh, I'm gonna regret this, aren't I. So, I like don't know how self taste work. So I recorded my own voice as the other character and then lowered the pitch like I was talking to someone and then just like acted off of my own voice. And the next day I get a call. They're like, Davi a lawyer, we want to fly you to l A. I was like, cool, coman, you don't you know what
this means though? Is now your aunts is gonna answer every single WhatsApp that never comes away. You've messed up her life, like she's never going to be the same now. Yeah, congratulations on the show. Congratulations are of being so successful. Wonderful meeting you, thank you for being here. Everybody's gonna watch. Don't give us any sort it's streaming right now. Want to give you with tomorrow The Daily Show with Trevor
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