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i am from yeah. okay. i'll take you div into the marvel cinematic universe today to meet pamela con. she's just an ordinary muslim american teen who happens to have some very special super powers. let's take a look at miss motto. okay, so for, sorry, i just want to say i school. huh. another venture shirt q. she thinks i'm some kind of weird out. you were boys, me, you're going to my sure. sorry. by sharing at the windows on your little fantasy more already really like you. i have to figure out my whole future before a launchers. ah, maybe they're right. they spend too much time in fantasyland.

that is not really the brown girls from jersey city to say, so that's the fantasy to well, i guess today are involved with the production of miss mobile. they're gonna be talking about the joy, the challenges of making it, and what the production means to muslims around the world. i'm going to say hello to ch aveena to rich to as a. thank you so much for me on the screen today. i'm going to get you to introduce yourself to our international audience and tell them your connection with ms. malvo trevino. you stopped. i'm tripping a springer. i played tie etha hill named con. i miss marble. lovely savvy. hello, rich. welcome to the stream. introduce yourself dr. hello, hello, i'm very so i play some role and he's a new boys out there with very nice as are so lovely to see you. great to have you

on the street, please introduce yourself to abby was and your connection to miss mama? sure. well, thank you for having me. my name is a small, i'm a standard comedian from chicago and i've stayed a cure called naj off the euro king nice small recurring committee role. very nice. nice to see you in the miss mobile unit as well. all right, so view is if you're watching right now on your, on youtube, he's got comment, she's got questions about miss mobile. how did they make it? what was that thought process? what happened behind the scenes? we have juice. we're happy to share with you comments that live right here. i am going to get and guess festival. we talked to some, some little ones about miss martha, what it meant to them. and this is what they told her. i want you to late take a look at this video and then immediately react. let's take a look at the youngsters. your future critics a

week. oh, she's scared of june and goes to the mosque while she goes to school and has many friends and gets in trouble with her teachers. this made me really happy and proud that there could be a girl just like me, being a super hero. some of my favorite scenes are ones the showcase, must oxidation, like painting, hannah and discussion again. ok, let's start with your vantage arena. you're watching those little girls and you're thinking it really is amazing and overwhelming to see the positive feedback in what this theories mean to so many young people. i'm just really well emotional about it. i bet it's huge for the young girls and children to see someone that reminds them of themselves and they

can see themselves and their family in this character. so i'm just excited and really moved by. oh my goodness. wish don't cry. you'll make us so quite ready. she was smiling. so bored. he is as little as little ones. road. yes, i can see my dad or what it's about. right. and somebody who has thought about being able to be involved in the show. and i have young nieces and literally got a message from their dr. mark, my cousin today. and he was and they just sat down and saw the 1st you have chosen the facts, yet people can relate it to themselves. and when i was young boys or girls, and if we look like us, i mean that's, that's a beautiful thing. i do. i makes me really proud. and i'm glad that they consider themselves in a really excited and feel like they finally have someone to look at it as i what, what, what caught me by surprise as if somebody had told me that disney was going to make a series and it was going to portray muslim american life every day,

life normal life, nothing special part from the supernatural part. i would be surprised. i would be thinking days. ne, yikes. oh, i saw what happens. because that wasn't the yes. well that, that the maria big you saw all statement would you be like should i be yikes yanked because you would be abby or would you be like? yikes. i ordered for by was anxious until i saw the 1st 4 episodes and then my shoulders went down and i relaxed as a tell me about your ex, your experience working on this because it is a big job to take miss marvel. as a muslim american teen putting on the screen and then for it to connect with people this, right. i mean, i think 1st of all, i'm kudos to the team that reduce the whole show. and i think that especially i would say the original team that created all the source material. i'm

talking specifically about, you know, g, willow, wilson, and of course, son amana to has been evolved from the very beginning, her co creating the character of kamala on. but then also shepherding the tv show in the marble cinematic universe because i think that, you know, whatever authenticity people are able to feel in the show to day really has its origin in the authenticity of, of the writers and producers and the original creative team that really took incredible pains to make sure that every detail was indeed authentic and was indeed attempting to do to do justice to what is ultimately a very nuanced experience of being a muslim in the united states. or i'd imagine in europe as well. you know, it's a very interesting time to be part of that minority and certainly growing up, i think, for young people coming up in the post 911 world quote unquote,

the prejudices the biases, this cultural and social attitudes. some folks have towards muslims and his slum can make it even more difficult. and so a show like this where clearly young people are responding in a very positive way and they're feeling seen and they're feeling represented. you know, that's really just a tremendous pleasure for all of us were involved in the show, how it is, and you cheve our wondering. i haven't seen this novel yet. what? ah, miss motto c palace. what can you tell us about has super palace so far in the series? this is just getting to grips with i love that you know, is he funny? suddenly find you've got super pal. you're not going to be with them. and she's not sick. she's 13 or sick. i think that was so really work. yes. you know, she's one of she's got like very normal problems surrounding. i mean she's in high

school and boys and religion and strict parents and then yeah, she's on powers. i know it's a matter of like how to why even this in. busy was going through all of that and normal teenagers. and yeah, i think one of the reasons to kamala 7, darren is a car. ready like you said, she's not slick. you see her kind of taking her time and trailing with bruno and trying to figure out, i mean, she's a freshman literally and donkey kong, you know, that goes to so like where her imagination goes, why would i, i think that's why she's what we want to because she's like most a cooler because she's small and yeah, yeah it's, it's great. i mean, throughout the series the. yeah, i was really progress. and as we know, she is going to be in the models and i'm excited to see how things are going into that as well. but it's definitely a being in movies. and i remember we're just letting her palace are so she can stop

herself from falling. because sort of icicles of stars shoot out, some parts of her body will show what they are to. i know she's got, i get my high dog. i like the app and sometimes who knows at school, but it is, it's out of control. watch the series and then you'll find out what have superpowers are because he's trying to what amount herself. i'm at brock spoke just a little bit earlier and abroad is a video host and producer. and it was really curious about one thing tra, vena, have a listen to opera. and then also her question, if you can, is my question for the mas marble team is, why do you think the show resonates with so many people who aren't muslim or, or who are in pakistani and what considerations went into making sure that that would be the case oh, that's a really good question i. i would think that people are really resonating with the

series which i'm very excited about and not completely surprised because we knew we were making something really special when we were creating this. and i think people can relate to kamala late, she's an ordinary teenager living her life. and most of us have experienced being a teenager in those struggles or will experience that are currently experiencing. and i think that there is somebody in everyone that people can see and they can relate to each of the characters of the coming of age story. it's just a really well written, well perform well created story and people connect to good storytelling. and i think it doesn't matter what the background is of who's being portrayed on tv like people in marginalized groups, watched what shows that don't reflect them and can enjoy the story. so i think the same thing is happening here. ringback is phenomenal. any mon, of amazing,

like you can't watch her and not fall in love with who she is and her portrayal of this character and world that we've created. so i think that's why people really like it and they enjoy it. and people also learning about south asian culture, pakistani culture and most some nests. and it's being shown in such a positive light and isn't a different light. i think that people are used to seeing which is probably very interesting. people want different and that's what we're giving them. i was jumping in, i was like, i knew so like, i think as well as it is by then like one of my favorite parts of the most recent phases of the shanty. and so many people are related. i story, you know, it's one of the coolest origin stories. yeah. right. you know, people who coaches watch like hunter and yeah, we have the opportunity to do the say, i think if you really relate to the found in the show,

i mean you're not said one because we're benji call unless she wished that she's like, oh, it's post post one moment because there's a little clip i've got and i'm gonna get back to you a little quick cause because coming up wants to go to dominican, but apparently don't let her. but then the big brother talks her parents into it. so now she can go and then this happens as far as you and j single. i have a surprise for you. the where do it best is yet to come? oh, my god. wow. i wish i cringe. cringe, cringe. oh, no,

i love it. that's the part that i feel people can relate to being a teen, and your parents won't let you do stuff particular if you're a young girl. ok. in particular, if you come from immigrant parents, we don't even have to be muslim. pakistani americans appreciate that. you can be any immigrant child of rhetoric, emmy, any immigrant family and you get that that, that dynamic and, and then you and your parents trying to understand the culture that you love, your pop culture. not quite getting it. it's interesting though, as ana. i'm, i'm going to bring this up because there has been some push back about how muslim culture is portrayed. and i want to bring that into the conversation because it's not everybody saying this is fantastical, that you've got incredible reviews and people really enjoying it. there are some people that are upset about the way that miss marveled doesn't wear had you for

instance, she doesn't cover a hair. the elements of the story that they are not enjoying. let me bring him must differ, and i know that you're going to be out of debate, not with him live, but after his video comment finishes, here is as a british pakistani miss marvel is incredible to watch. unfortunately, in his current form is still somewhat a victim of his own success is managed to pull off being muslim without being islamic, but is also alienated large parts of his potential audience. both non muslims and conservative muslims are looked into tuning because they don't think the showcase is what's them? which is a shame because miss marvel has some potential to be the family sick. come to find the next decade of television as i go for it, a good impossible, impossible recovery to respond to. i believe, you know, i'd say this, i know i'm,

i'm participating in this conversation because of my involvement in miss marvel where i am involved as an actor. you know, i also am a writer and a producer, and i work on a show called rami, which is on hulu, not to plug it, but it's also wrapper graham. he's been on the scene, we love rami and okay. yeah. so you know, that show has way more adult and controversial themes very well. it's my point is, you know, we've, yet, my point is we've heard this similar response from, i guess, use the term conservative muslims, you know, whatever label you want to use. i think there is something to be said for and there's a space in between kind of reality and fiction. and that's where artists take artistic license and what often can be triggering for some muslims is when artistic

license is taken by a creative person. and the audience feels that a, that license is going too far. it's not faithful either to the religion or to the teachings of the religion or how muslims actually are, et cetera, et cetera. these are nuanced debates that are in pos you can never make everyone happy. i'll just say that i arrived with the clarity about this while working on romney and i feel the same way about his moral. you know, if you're watching a tv show to teach you about religion, you know you've already lost like, don't go get your religion from religious people and get your entertainment from t v people and never the twain shall meet i think be a really beautiful thing. i can understand with the i can understand what the criticism is here, but then i'd like to counter and say, i think the beautiful thing about this model is that it depicts different kinds of muslin. we live on a spectrum. there's not one way we're not a model of the community. i'm muslim. i don't vail, and i know plenty of muslims that don't fail. i know plan muslims who do and then muslims who bail in different ways. and i think what's really beautiful and well

done about the series that it displays different ways to show up in your islam. and there's not a right and wrong way. we want the show to be accessible to everyone and also where to pick the muslims in america. that something i think that might involve slip, you may catch, you know, this is how muslims in cleveland or the city and i think that's really cool for people to see all they do this. wilson's can do that and there's not one way which is the truth of my experience as though from person who lives in america though, i think that's important. yeah. and i had one more comment as i, i appreciate what trevino is saying tremendously, and i want to add one more detail because i'm going to stand up comedy bull to read on our said, stand up comedians. and you know, i was all support for many years of a show called a law made me funny, the official muslim comedy or do you stand up comedy? we got all kinds of, you know, criticism and feedback from muslims. and i had to make this quote over and over. i think it bears repeating, you know,

islam as an ancient global world. ready religion, it is a set of timeless universal principles, and when it is applied, wiggles principles are applied in a particular social or cultural context. you know, islam in egypt easy. gyptian is learn person appears. persian islam in arabia is arabian islam in india is indian. and therefore, islam and america necessarily is american, and that means it is culturally and racially diverse. it is theologically diverse, it is big tech islam that allows and has as much breast and openness and acceptance for every possible interpretation under the sun. and that's part of what i think makes i swam with united states so unique and different, but also special and something that is should be celebrated. and i think the show does indeed capture a lot of that and the diversity of, of the racial diversity, the spectrum of types of muslims,

dawson cetera. all that is part of portraying muslims, actually as they actually are, which i think is actually extremely authentic. let me bring in a few more comments from i you choose audio to watching right now liz rainy says i love miss marvel as another brown case. obsessed with co makes it so relatable, and in louis herrera says, i'm not muslim. so this show has been great for my family in order to know more about muslim culture. i think the only way i would love to describe it to people who are not muslim or that there were little easter aches, you know, like sometimes when you were playing video games a little, oh you go over a little something and then you get extra points i say from his model, if you know, you know, if you don't google it and is it extra points that are going on to mean? i think you are one of the extra points because there is no there's. there's no package involved of you marrying miss marvels. oh, the big brother. we know that in america,

the african american muslims and then south asian muslims, as a whole truck going on this drama. it's a difficult conversation. it's an issue. but it's just that like, it's wonderful there. yeah. actually about yeah, i love that like taisha hillman, mary's armor con, in the series. and patients of black american muslim girl from jersey and you know, armors, foxhunting, american. and they're just in love. it's very, it's presented in a very matter of fact way. and it's celebrated and i think it's so beautiful and powerful to see. listen, love in that way because you don't see it on a scale like this. and i've, i've experienced afro asian interracial marriages and friendship. people have those relationships and to see it on television is wonderful. but the truth of the matter is because there is a lot of anti black racism in these communities that exist. and it's not just in

america, it's a global thing. and i think for ms. marble to depict as it is in the comics she's not created for the is it is in the comics in the source material and for their love to be just celebrated and shown in such a positive light in the family just accepting it's not like controversy, controversial i think it's really important and powerful, and one of the things that i loved, i mean, i talked about that earlier. we were filming, like, are we going to talk about like the race thing or color is and we were like, no, they just love her. we're moving on and accepting it and i don't that outside. i love that i got one more. so i'm going to i'm going to put this one to you. wish this is amman alley. he's a writer and performer and he sees this production. this model is incredibly important. his, his thoughts are not enough to hang on his mind. i remember the year 0 time, 15 years ago where you would get on stage and someone would pull a microphone out of your hand saying comedy is her rom,

art is her on blah blah. and now to have a show that is in the marvel universe about a bad ass superhero is absolutely incredible. and i think one of the biggest highlights for me is this show truly is a love letter to the muslim community. yes, it's a messy, it's complicated. it's layered, but it's also it's loving, it's so warm. and i think that to me is really what brings me so much joy. wish i had. i mean, yeah, it's been made with so much heart. i mean like we've said. busy everybody has been involved in this project. yes, it was amazing starts. i see some. ready people who can relate to the culture. so for me personally, i can only see myself. i know other people have to miss image only of identity and kind of wearing or coaching. right. i mean, representing dacy culture and that's something which i struggled with growing up. and so it's really cool to be able to see that it's being shown finally and in

a positive light. and, you know, i think we have to remind ourselves that yeah, this is one story of one going on and actually allow small crazies within the industry to be able to have a chance to tell their story. you know, we're very lucky to be in this position and it's amazing that people are enjoying st. anne's of coach, of a show in a positive light. yeah, please just so this movement and it becomes kind of normality, you know? yeah, that's really the goal here. i think when it's, you know, we can, we can imagine a. ready from a male round out from new jersey. perfect place to angelina as our thank you so much for joining us. if you miss malvo you, you're so welcome. thank you. and you want to see miss marvel. you can watch miss novel on disney plus any time and you're not watching out to sara. i will if you

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