Moon Knight Actor Didn’t Know She Was Auditioning to Play a Hippo
Warning! Contains mild spoilers for Moon Knight episode 5
Moon Knight star Antonia Salib didn’t know she was auditioning to play a hippo in Marvel Studios’ latest Disney+ series. The most recent series taking place within the Marvel Cinematic Universe follows Oscar Isaac as Marc Spector and Steven Grant, two alters within a Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) system that share the same body. The mercenary alter, Marc, made a life-saving pact with the Egyptian moon god, Khonshu (voiced by F. Murray Abraham). The series also stars Ethan Hawke as Arthur Harrow, the late Gaspard Ulliel as Anton Mogart, and May Calamawy as Layla El-Faouly.
In episode 4, “The Tomb,” Harrow shoots Marc/Steven in the chest before the pair awake in a psychiatric hospital where their ally Layla is a fellow patient and the villainous Harrow is their doctor. If that wasn’t disorienting enough for audiences, the episode ends with the introduction of a larger-than-life hippopotamus. In episode 5, “Asylum,” this friendly hippopotamus reveals herself to be Taweret, the Egyptian goddess of mothers and children responsible for guiding souls through Duat so that they may arrive at the Field of Reeds—as long as their heart is balanced when weighed against the feather of Maat. The episode sees Marc/Steven relive traumatic memories as Taweret does her best to help. Now, Salib has opened up about auditioning for the role of the now-fan-favorite hippopotamus.
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In a conversation with Marvel, Salib talked about the audition process for Moon Knight and detailed how the role came as a complete surprise. As is the case with pretty much everything Marvel, Salib didn’t know what character or
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