MCM Comic Con London 2025: Nadji Jeter Discuss' Importance of Miles Morales
- Jack Ransom
- May 25
- 3 min read
Updated: May 26
By Jack Ransom - May 25, 2025
Our second panel interview of the day at MCM! Actor Nadji Jeter, who is most famous for his portrayal of Miles Morales in Insomniac’s Spider-Man video games and Sam in Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us. He immediately brought the enthusiastic, upbeat, friendly vibes to the room and pulled out Miles' mask for all to see! He was clearly buzzed about his second time at MCM Comic Con and answered all the questions with passion and in great depth. Here’s what he had to say!
I began the proceedings by asking him if there were any particular comics and/or graphic novels that inspired him or that he researched after getting the role of Miles. Nadji exclaimed how the first person he went to for advice and inspiration was his Uncle. He knew straight away about Miles, who created him and when. He gushed about how he has got to grow with Miles, “I got to grow with him through puberty, now he’s writing his college essays and finally hitting adulthood.” Nadji emphasised how Miles has resonated so much with the current culture due to his youth - “Miles, is that essential, this is the now! Let’s spice it up and make it different.” He was a Marvel kid growing up (listing Tobey Maguire’s portrayal of Spider-Man, he looked up to Blade and Punisher as well), but he feels like Miles is “The modern version of today’s trials and tribulations. Today's new coming-of-age style.” what the kid’s want to sound, dress and act like, as well as him “being a pretty cool guy to know, you know!”
Nadji touched on how he found Miles’ vulnerability and relatability. Nadji is half-Jamaican, and Miles being half-Porta Rican, meant he understood his first generation of being an immigrant and how he has family in New York, so he knew “how the energy is and how spunky and fast paced they are.” Putting both these together and his own “inner big-kid and inner-self” helped him find the impact for Miles to resonate with families and fans. He was simultaneously hurt that he couldn’t meet everyone straight away when the Spider-Man: Miles Morales game released during peak-COVID lockdown era, however he was hearing that fans were “playing nothing but Miles!” He sees this as his “redemption and to show this is who I am and who he (Miles) is.”
Moving on from Miles, Nadji recounted how The Last of Us was his first game experience (he plays Sam) and how he was very new to the world of mo-cap and game production. He praised Neil Druckmann and reminisced how the cast would help him with school work on set. He gushed about Keivonn Woodward’s portrayal and how he can’t wait to meet him. I asked him about the processes behind Insomniac and Naughty Dog’s methods. He gleefully recalled Naughty Dog “hooking him up!” with a PlayStation and all the Uncharted games to play. Insomniac “has seen the growth” of him as an actor. He recalled the amount of Crash Bandicoot & Spyro he used to play at day-care and that it is “mind-blowing” to him that he gets to work with both the companies. He also listed off a cavalcade of different video games that he has played, jokingly admitting “People always ask - Do I play my own Spider-Man games? - No I do not!”
Towards the end of the panel he reiterated just how important both Peter Parker and Miles’ stories are to this day. Delivering a passionate speech emphasising the message of both characters being to “overcome that pain” whether it be with family, friends, health, relationships and school.
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