How Ms. Marvel Filmed Kamala's "Telekinetic" Powers On Set
Jules O'Loughlin, cinematographer of Ms. Marvel episodes 4 and 5, has revealed how the show filmed Kamala Khan's "telekinetic" powers. One of Marvel Comics' most successful "Legacy" heroes (rivaled only by Miles Morales' Spider-Man), Kamala's Ms. Marvel has had a massive cultural impact upon arriving in the comics. It was always only a matter of time before Ms. Marvel made her MCU debut — but when she did, it came with a dramatic change. Played by Iman Vellani, Kamala got her first onscreen appearance in this year's Ms. Marvel..
Marvel rewrote Kamala's origin story to distance her from the Inhumans and gave Ms. Marvel a different powerset to boot. In the comics, Ms. Marvel is a polymorph; in contrast, the MCU's version of the hero can generate so-called "hard light" constructs. The Ms. Marvel Disney+ TV show featured a number of nods to Kamala's comic book powers — notably with "embiggened" hand-shapes — but visually, her new powers felt as though they were based on those of a lesser-known X-Men character, Armor. Naturally, the change was controversial.
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Ms. Marvel's O'Loughlin now speaks exclusively to Screen Rant about how Marvel made these powers a reality. While a certain level of VFX work was required to pull it off, the creative team employed a practical approach to one aspect of Kamala's powers. O'Loughlin explains:
As far as Kamala's powers, she has a telekinetic power and there's an energy emanating from her, but also a crystalline structure that she creates. It's an energy that gives off an interactive light. For myself and for our VFX supervisor, it was really important we did as much in camera as possible. We didn't want to leave it all
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