No fewer than a dozen cast and crew members from Marvel Studios' upcoming Disney+ original series Ms. Marvel have gotten matching tattoos of the title character's trademark lightning bolt symbol.Ms. Marvel stars Laurel Marsden and Yasmeen Fletcher -- who play Zoe Zimmer and Nakia Bahadir, respectively -- discussed the matching tattoos during an interview with Variety at the Spider-Man: No Way Home premiere. "Everyone in the cast got matching Ms. Marvel tattoos in their own little way," said Marsden. "So, mine is red for my character's red hair."
"Mine is just -- it's, like, very similar to hers," Fletcher added." It's just in black... Because we're best friends and we wanted it in the same spot" Fletcher went on to explain how the tattoos actually came about. "On our, like, very last day, like, they day before I left, we all, like -- we had a tattoo artist come to my apartment."
According to Fletcher, 12 members of Ms. Marvel's cast and crew got tattoos to mark the occasion, from the main cast to the supporting cast to the stunt team. "Everybody felt so at home in this show that, like, everybody wanted something to remember it by."
One of the numerous Marvel Studios shows slated to hit Disney+ in the near future, Ms. Marvel is currently expected to premiere sometime next summer. The series stars Iman Vellani as lead character Kamala Khan. Created by Sana Amanat, Stephen Wacker, G. Willow Wilson, Adrian Alphona and Jamie McKelvie, Kamala Khan first appeared in 2013's Captain Marvel #14. She is the fourth Marvel Comics character to assume the mantle of Ms. Marvel, following Carol Danvers, Sharon Ventura and Karla Sofen.
In addition to Vellani, Fletcher and Marsden, Marvel Studios' Ms. Marvel stars Aramis Knight as Kareem/Red Dagger, Saagar Shaikh as Amir Khan, Rish Shah as Kamran, Matt Lintz as Bruno Carrelli, Zenobia Shroff as Muneeba Khan and Mohan Kapur as Yusuf Khan. Meanwhile, Laith Nakli, Azhar Usman, Travina Springer, Nimra Bucha, Alyy Khan and Alysia Reiner have been cast in undisclosed roles.
Following Ms. Marvel, Vellani will reprise her role as Kamala Khan opposite Brie Larson's Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel and Teyonah Parris' Monica Rambeau (who was once Captain Marvel herself in the comics) in the upcoming film The Marvels, which is slated for release on Feb. 17, 2023.
Larson made her debut as Carol Danvers in the 2019 Marvel Cinematic Universe film Captain Marvel, later reprising the role that same year in Avengers: Endgame. Captain Marvel also starred Akira and Azari Akbar as young Monica Rambeau. An older version of Monica, played by Parris, prominently appeared in the Disney+ original series WandaVision earlier this year.
Ms. Marvel is slated to premiere on Disney+ in the summer of 2022.
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