Former star has entered a new realm of fandom with her role as Jennifer Kale on the newly launched superhero dark comedy . “I think I’m ready,” Zamata told ahead of the series debut on Sept. 18.
“I guess I won’t know until it happens, but I am excited because I think fans will love it. We’re really stepping into the magic side of Marvel and that’s really exciting and fun.” The spinoff finds ’s Agatha disingenuously reassembling a reluctant coven to regain her supernatural powers.
Among them is Zamata’s character, a potions witch who runs an organic skincare apothecary of sorts when not dabbling in the occult. In episode three, “Through Many Miles / Of Tricks and Trials,” Jennifer saves the day — and almost all of the characters’ lives — when she conjures up an antidote after realizing they’ve been poisoned by a bottle of wine they drunk when they stopped by an unoccupied home along the Witch’s Road. Like her prior roles in , and , in which Zamata, who recently came out as a “ ,” was cast as a queer woman before publicly sharing her sexual identity, the opportunity to portray Jen came just as the actress and comedian was exploring the history of witches for her latest standup special .
“It’s like the Venn diagram of all my interests is a perfect circle with this show,” says Zamata. Below, the Marvel star talks about her experience filming , from the singing scenes to wearing prosthetics, and the response to her coming out. *** I was .