Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. Please welcome in Balani, Miss Marvel,
Speaker 1: welcome to the Daily Show. Thank you, thank you. Are
Speaker 1: you used to that yet? The fact that you are
Speaker 1: miss Marveled and not just miss Moveled, by the way,
Speaker 1: not just mis Marvel, but you are officially currently the
Speaker 1: most liked show on Rotten Tomorrows in the Marvel universe.
Speaker 1: How does it feel? It feels great. It's weird that
Speaker 1: like people who doubt it ask like we're the underdogs now.
Speaker 1: So the amount of actually he's in a sentence, Oh,
Speaker 1: it's actually pretty good. Actually I think I'm liking it.
Speaker 1: So that's that's my favorite part. Yeah, you've been a
Speaker 1: fan for a long time. A hot minute. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: want to know. I want to know how, because everyone
Speaker 1: has a story about how they became a fan of
Speaker 1: one of the Marvel characters that not every but he
Speaker 1: knows about. Oh, I mean I was like six when
Speaker 1: iron Man came out, so the MC has always been
Speaker 1: in my life. And then like my high school's right
Speaker 1: across from a comic book shop, and I have the
Speaker 1: fattest crush on Robert Downey Jr. So I just needed
Speaker 1: more iron Man. So I was like constantly reading more
Speaker 1: vis iron Man, and then I picked up iron Heart
Speaker 1: and threw her. I found Kamala and I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, Brown Preston, who's this and fell in
Speaker 1: love with her. It seems like, I mean, it feels
Speaker 1: like you were made for this character. It was crazy.
Speaker 1: I felt like the comics were written about me, for
Speaker 1: me and only me. Likely it really does. Like how
Speaker 1: many stories can you say when you go like, oh,
Speaker 1: who is this character? Okay? You know here you have
Speaker 1: this girl who was born to immigrants from Pakistan and
Speaker 1: then she's like living in this different world and it
Speaker 1: was like you like you you that that's that's wild,
Speaker 1: like Muslim superhero fully crazy. I you were just Marvel
Speaker 1: for every Halloween. That's what I would do. I dressed
Speaker 1: up as around how when I fully manifested this? Yeah,
Speaker 1: do people know who you are? No? I went to
Speaker 1: school and I was so excited. I had like my
Speaker 1: grandma helped me stitch the costume. And I went to
Speaker 1: school and everyone's like, cool flash costume? Man, are you
Speaker 1: kidding me? The lightning bull doesn't mean flash? But yeah,
Speaker 1: I had to go across the street by us Marvel
Speaker 1: comic and just carry it with me so people knew
Speaker 1: who I was. You had to reference the You realize
Speaker 1: that's never gonna happen again now, right. I mean that's
Speaker 1: one of the humor stories of all time. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: the story is really great because some people, you know,
Speaker 1: I feel like it's a different world. They'd be like, oh,
Speaker 1: how do you have a Muslim superhero? And you know
Speaker 1: she's some Pakistan away, But everyone doesn't seem to understand
Speaker 1: that every hero comes from somewhere and they just have
Speaker 1: their story and that it's just like normal for them.
Speaker 1: I love how the show is seamless. I love how
Speaker 1: it's just her story and she's a superhero. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: think we've really done with the comics Dion and organically
Speaker 1: incorporate wating diversity into her story. And it's not something
Speaker 1: that just like, it's not personality being Muslim or being Pakistani.
Speaker 1: It's she's this Avengers loving fanfake writing dork who just
Speaker 1: happens to be Muslim in Pakistani, and that side of
Speaker 1: her kind of you know, guides her as it's her
Speaker 1: moral code and and it uplifts her and elevates her
Speaker 1: story in a really unique way that we really haven't
Speaker 1: seen in the m c U, so I think that's cool.
Speaker 1: It's super cool, but power of the cool as well. Okay,
Speaker 1: that was something I was intreated by because like, like
Speaker 1: I remember seeing some of the old comics of Miss
Speaker 1: Marvel and and she had like stretching abilities, and I
Speaker 1: know you can't give anything away, but you know you
Speaker 1: have different powers in the beginning, it's like you can
Speaker 1: you can like shape shift things and you can you know,
Speaker 1: is that are she going to get like more powers
Speaker 1: or is more powers? Yeah, there's purple light coming out
Speaker 1: of that. I'm not being ungrateful. I'm just saying that
Speaker 1: sounded like I was just asking if she's gonna get
Speaker 1: like different? Are they like things that you don't want
Speaker 1: to tell me anything? I see you it promis today
Speaker 1: And then Disney told me they're like, man's not going
Speaker 1: to tell you anything. If you ask her sworn oaths
Speaker 1: to Kevin bum like, you will not get a Tom
Speaker 1: Holland out of me. Nothing coming out, spoilers, no scoilers, whatsoever.
Speaker 1: So this is just the beginning. You realize this, you all,
Speaker 1: I mean, this is such a fun wild story. You
Speaker 1: you you you got this role in one of the
Speaker 1: craziest ways possible, because I heard a rumor that you
Speaker 1: heard about this from like a family member. They didn't
Speaker 1: call you directly What's app, which is like funny because
Speaker 1: like brown people thrive on what'sapp. So like the fact
Speaker 1: that this happened through a What'sapp forward. My aunt was
Speaker 1: a part of some brown group chat that she never opens.
Speaker 1: And when she opened it, and someone had forwarded this
Speaker 1: casting call and she sent it to me and I'm like, look,
Speaker 1: this is what a scam is. Um, we don't I'm
Speaker 1: not an actor. I can't. Like it was fully a
Speaker 1: blank page. I said, send headshown and resume here and
Speaker 1: this Marvel casting. I was like okay, um. And then
Speaker 1: they sent self tape and asides for the self tape
Speaker 1: and and n d A and I was like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, it's real. I know exactly which comic books
Speaker 1: they pulled these scenes from. And so I wasn't gonna
Speaker 1: do it just out of like sheer fear of failure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And then like three am hit the night it was due.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I'm gonna regret this, aren't I. So,
Speaker 1: I like don't know how self taste work. So I
Speaker 1: recorded my own voice as the other character and then
Speaker 1: lowered the pitch like I was talking to someone and
Speaker 1: then just like acted off of my own voice. And
Speaker 1: the next day I get a call. They're like, Davi
Speaker 1: a lawyer, we want to fly you to l A.
Speaker 1: I was like, cool, coman, you don't you know what
Speaker 1: this means though? Is now your aunts is gonna answer
Speaker 1: every single WhatsApp that never comes away. You've messed up
Speaker 1: her life, like she's never going to be the same now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: congratulations on the show. Congratulations are of being so successful.
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