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There are some actors that dutifully play the PR game and stay on message 24/7. These actors include Jessica Chastain and Ryan Gosling. Then, there are some actors who are in their DGAF stage and have no filter whatsoever, like Jamie Lee Curtis. Jamie Lee is currently promoting her upcoming movie Borderlands, which co-stars Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, and Jack Black, and will be out on August 9. It’s based off of a popular video game franchise. While doing press for the movie at Comic-Con, Jamie Lee and some of her co-stars were asked about the Marvel marvels, specifically, if they knew what phase the movies are in right now. Jamie stepped in it a bit by quickly answering, “Bad.” After her simple answer blew up online, Jamie ended up apologizing.
Jamie Lee Curtis now says she’s sorry for her comments at San Diego Comic-Con shading Marvel. When asked by MTV what phase the Marvel Cinematic Universe was in, Curtis did not hesitate, quickly saying “Bad”.
In a post on X Thursday, Curtis wrote, “My comments about Marvel were stupid and I will do better. I’ve reached out to Kevin Feige and will no longer play in that mud slinging sandbox of competition we call the internet nor will I engage in the toilet paper promotion or game play that is designed for clicks not content or conversation.”
Curtis’ MCU comment followed earlier remarks in which she mocked Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which she compared unfavorably to her film, the Oscar-winning Everything Everywhere All at Once.
She claimed Doctor Strange was missing “a dynamite dildo fight scene as well as a very erotic hotdog hand-mating dance.” In contrast, her film “has a deep BEATING heart and BRILLIANT visual treats, EXTRAORDINARY performances and FANTASTIC BEASTLY FIGHT SCENES…… AND it COST LESS than the ENTIRE craft service budget on Doctor Strange and/or any other Marvel movie.”
Curtis and her Borderlands co-stars had issues with the Marvel trivia question by MTV on the MCU phase.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians star Walker Scobell incorrectly guessed, “six.” Rings of Power actress Ema Horvath ignored numbers entirely, suggesting, “A transitional phase.” X-Men alum James McAvoy got it right on his first guess of “five.”
But Mackenzie Davis brought it back down with her comment, “Death.”
“Hey Marvel, she just terminated you,” McAvoy joked.
Christian Slater also correctly guessed that the MCU is currently in Phase 5.
Fantastic Four: First Steps will be the beginning of Phase 6 in mid-2025.
I won’t argue with you if you think Jamie Lee should have adhered to the “If you don’t have anything nice to say…” adage. That’s always a valid option. That said, she’s not wrong. Marvel is not in a good place right now. Phases 4 and 5 have been a complete mess and several of the TV series that are required viewing in order to understand half of what’s going on in the movies have been pretty mediocre. Fans are also unhappy with how some of the characters have been done dirty, too. WandaVision was awesome, but Wanda’s character in Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, was a mess (as was 90% of that movie). The Eternals was long and boring. I loved Black Widow, but it didn’t belong in Phase 4. Shang-Chi was fun, but the character has all but disappeared. If Marvel wasn’t in a “bad” phase, then they wouldn’t be bringing back Robert Downey Jr. and the Russo brothers to try and recapture some of its box office magic.
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Respectfully, Deadpool just made 200+ million … not saying marvel doesn’t need to recenter a bit but they’re fine. And it rubs me the wrong way for actors, especially an actor doing Freaky Friday 2 and Halloween 26289292, to talk poorly on movies that people actually like to see. Especially in this economy.
I mean, Deadpool and Wolverine is unquestionably a triumph but it literally includes a scene where Ryan turns to Hugh and says “Welcome to the MCU, you’re joining at a bit of a low point” and the audience laughs! Deadpool is savage about the whole thing throughout! The studio is fully aware. It’s absolutely silly that this became a story or anything anyone needs to apologize for. They are literally about to make well over a billion dollars on a movie that leans hard on “yeah it’s been a rough few years creatively”.
And the one that is repeated throughout the movie that Disney isn’t going to let Hugh retire Wolverine until he’s 90! There are slams EVERYWHERE, and it’s hilarious.
Is it really a triumph for the MCU if D&W is just relentlessly mocking it? D&W is a triumph for nostalgia and the Fox X-Men era, not the MCU. If anything, it proves people are tired.
Also, ngl, but I’d rather have a hundred Halloween sequels over the kind of soulless content Marvel Studios keeps churning out. Halloween isn’t highbrow, but it has more soul. Scorsese was right. MCU “movies” are just carnival rides.
I’d rather read the comics, tbh. Even at their most commercial, they’re more artistically exciting than 90% of the MCU.
Are people tired, or are they really fucking ecstatic that a really smart movie was made?
They’re bringing back RDJ because Kang is canceled for obvious reasons. And because in the comic books, Iron Man comes back as Dr. Doom, so this is a nautual segue.
It’s so elitist to bash on Marvel. Some of the greatest actors today have starred in those films, including many Oscar winners. It reeks of box office jealousy.
I love JLC, but she needs to shut up someitmes.
“in the comic books, Iron Man comes back as Dr. Doom”
No, he does not. Doom took over Tony Stark’s body once. It happens in ONE comic. It’s not part of the canon status quo.
Tony Stark and Victor Von Doom are two entirely different characters. One is a white man from the USA and the other is a Romani man from the fictional country of Latveria.
Stop spreading misinformation to justify whitewashing.
@jfc There is no white washing going on here. Victor von Doom is a white eastern European Roma man.
It’s sad and ridiculous she had to apologize to Marvel. Who are they? Everybody has to bow down to them?She’s should be free to say whatever she likes.
Hear hear! They don’t pay her wage, why should she shill for them?
When did Marvel become sacred? I think she was mistaken to apologise. As Barbie1 said, don’t bow down to this corporate bs.
The last comic book movie I saw was Batman Returns so that’s how out of touch I am regarding these type of movies , but you seriously need to watch the tv shows in order to follow the movies🙄
There are other things she needs to apologize for too. Never thought she would be the reason for me not watching freaky friday but here we are.