Samuel L. Jackson Weighs In On Quentin Tarantino’s Anti-Marvel Comments - Deadline

Samuel L. Jackson connected the comments made by Quentin Tarantino regarding actors that enactment successful Marvel films getting overshadowed by the characters they portray.

“It takes an histrion to beryllium those peculiar characters,” Jackson said connected The View erstwhile asked astir Tarantino’s remarks. “And the motion of movie stardom has ever been, what, asses successful seats? What are we talking about?”

The histrion has worked with Tarantino successful the past successful movies similar Pulp Fiction (1994), Jackie Brown (1997) and Django Unchained (2012). Jackson is besides portion of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, archetypal appearing successful Iron Man (1998) arsenic Nick Fury. He has reprised his relation galore times aft that successful films similar Captain America: The First Avenger, Thor, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, Captain Marvel, Spider-Man Far From Home and adjacent twelvemonth connected The Marvels.

“So, it’s not a large contention for maine to cognize that, well, apparently, these actors are movie stars,” helium added. You know, Chadwick Boseman is Black Panther. You can’t refute that. And he’s a movie star.”

Tarantino made a arguable connection portion making an quality successful the podcast 2 Bears, 1 Cave saying, “Part of the Marvel-ization of Hollywood is…you person each these actors who person go celebrated playing these characters. But they’re not movie stars. Right? Captain America is the star. Or Thor is the star. I mean, I’m not the archetypal idiosyncratic to accidental that. I deliberation that’s been said a zillion times…but it’s like, you know, it’s these franchise characters that go a star.”

Shang-Chi prima Simu Liu was 1 of the Marvel actors that pushed backmost connected Tarantino’s assessment.

Watch Jackson’s interrogation connected The View successful the video posted below.