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Social media influencers weren't Jameela Jamil's lone inspiration for She-Hulk's Titania. Find retired which popstar's euphony helped the histrion hole for her relation connected the Marvel series.
She-Hulk's Jameela Jamil Based Titania connected Toxic Beauty Influencers
Jameela Jamil's imagination She-Hulk: Attorney astatine Law cameo is besides 1 of her character's biggest inspirations.
The Good Place histrion is partially responsible for Megan Thee Stallion's iconic (yet brief) cameo connected the Disney+ show's Sept. 1 episode, having recommended the rapper for the relation to caput writer Jessica Gao. But Jameela's ultimate Marvel cameo is different music superstar who helped her hole for her relation arsenic Titania, the archnemesis of Jennifer Walters/She-Hulk's (Tatiana Maslany).
"Britney [Spears] was a immense mode for maine to get into quality due to the fact that she's conscionable got specified brilliant, feisty music," she said successful an exclusive interrogation with E! News. "I trained listening to Britney the full time, and I would perceive to Britney erstwhile I was getting acceptable and perceive to songs similar 'Toxic' oregon 'Gimme More.'"
To Jameela, the pop star's euphony represents "confidence and specified sass and specified glamour and sex," each of which she needed to physique Titania's character, joking that she herself doesn't "have immoderate of those things."
The 36-year-old has already shared immoderate of her BTS combat grooming videos with fans connected Instagram, but she's redeeming her favorite—which features her reciting the lines to "Work Bitch" portion battling unspecified opponents—until fans spot the combat spell down aboriginal this season. (We cognize Marvel loves to support their secrets.)
Britney wasn't the lone inspiration down the star's Marvel Cinematic Universe debut, though, arsenic the amusement puts a modern-day twist connected the comic publication villain by making her a societal media influencer.
"I conscionable was capable to gully from truthful galore antithetic examples of toxic influencers," she revealed, "especially quality influencers, who merchantability nonsense to marque money."
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And Titania did precisely that connected the show's Sept. 15 episode by launching a cosmetics line called She-Hulk, lone to be sued by the leader for utilizing the She-Hulk name.
Jameela besides noted that Titania's over-the-top property and looks were intentional, arsenic the amusement is simply a satire connected some the superhero and courtroom play genres.
"I wanted this quality to look arsenic though she'd had loads of constitution connected and a batch of similar augmentation of her look and her bottom," said Jameela. "She's got large butt pads that marque it look similar she's had bum injections. I'm not trying to shame anyone who's had those things. It's conscionable much that she's selling quality products arsenic if those things are wherefore she looks the mode that she does."
For fans hoping to spot much of her quality this season, Jameela teased that there's plentifulness much Titania/She-Hulk play to come.
"I deliberation Titania's conscionable gonna transportation connected being a symptom successful the ass the mode that she already has started being, and she's conscionable gonna support coming backmost for more," she shared. "She's conscionable gonna support pushing Jennifer's buttons successful the hopes that she'll snap. But she wants to win, and she's not gonna alteration her caput anytime soon."
Hear much from Jameela—including which Marvel leader she'd emotion to spot Titania spell up against—in the afloat interrogation above.
New episodes of She-Hulk: Attorney astatine Law premiere Thursdays connected Disney+.
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