Jamie Lee Curtis has vowed to stop blaming Marvel Studios anymore. The Oscar-winning actress recently went viral on social media over an interview she gave at MTV Comic-Con where she was asked to name the stage the Marvel Cinematic Universe is currently in. Curtis responded: “Bad.”
“My comments about Marvel were stupid and I will do better,” Curtis wrote in a statement on social media. “I have reached out to Kevin Feige and will no longer participate in the slush-filled competition box we call the internet and will no longer participate in promoting toilet paper or games designed for clicks and not content.”
While Curtis admitted that Marvel’s public shading was a mistake, she wasn’t necessarily wrong in her assessment of the MCU. While Marvel returned to the top of the box office with “Deadpool & Wolverine,” which is expected to cross the $1 billion mark at the global box office, it also had its worst year ever in 2023 with two box office flops: “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” and “The Marvels.” The latter title became the lowest-grossing Marvel film in history with just $84 million at the domestic box office.
Coates also cast a shadow over Marvel throughout 2023 as her multiverse film Everything Everywhere All at Once hit theaters around the same time as Marvel’s Doctor Strange: The World of Madness . News of the actress’s involvement spread on social media at the time, announcing her film as the superior multiverse project.
“I have nothing against Marvel as an entity. I’ve watched a lot of Marvel movies,” Curtis later explained to People’s Magazine When asked about the playful feud, he said, “What I was talking about is that Everything Everywhere All at Once was a small movie that could… and we were able to tell a multiverse story that really affected people. What I was trying to talk about is that it doesn’t have to be a Marvel movie to be a great spectacle and really affect you.”
Curtis was at Comic-Con to promote the video game adaptation of “Borderlands,” which hits theaters on August 9.
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