Moon Knight's May Calamawy Reacts to Fan Support For MCU Show
May Calamawy, who plays Layla in Moon Knight, took to social media to express her gratitude for fans’ support for the Marvel Cinematic Universe show. Marvel Studios’ latest series on Disney+ follows Oscar Isaac as Steven Grant, the National Art Galley’s humble “gift shoppist” who believes himself to be a sleepwalker. In reality, Steven has dissociative identity disorder (DID) and his alters include Marc Spector—a mercenary who made a life-saving deal with the Egyptian moon god, Khonshu (voiced by F. Murray Abraham). In addition to Isaac, Moon Knight stars Ethan Hawke as Arthur Harrow, the late Gaspard Ulliel as Anton Mogart, and Calamawy as Layla El-Faouly.
Bahraini-born, Egyptian-Palestinian actress Calamawy plays the estranged wife of Marc, who was aware of his lunar superpowers but unaware of his DID until Moon Knight episode 2, “Summon the Suit.” Before Moon Knight, Calamawy was perhaps best known for playing Dena Hassan in the Hulu dramedy Ramy. Now that she’s starring in an MCU series, Calamawy's profile continues to grow as new episodes release each week and she appears to be feeling the love.
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Calamawy recently took to Instagram to react to the outpouring of fan support for Moon Knight. After Marvel Studios wrote, “Gotta love #LaylaElFaouly,” the actress shared the post on her story and thanked the masses for their loving words. Check out Marvel’s post and a screenshot of Calamawy’s story below:
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Calamawy has said that when she auditioned for her MCU role, Marvel didn’t give her much to go on other than her Egyptian lineage. Three episodes into Moon Knight on
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