Jamie Lee Curtis mocks the ‘bad’ Marvel franchise — and then walks back ‘stupid’ comments
Jamie Lee Curtis declared war on the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The Oscar winner, 65, shaded the superhero franchise when she was at San Diego Comic-Con over the weekend.
In a clip from her interview with MTV’s Josh Horowitz, Curtis was asked which phase the MCU is in right now.
“Bad,” she bluntly responded.
Horowitz was shocked by Curtis’ comment, as the actress and her “Borderlands” costars all burst out laughing.
After the remark made headlines, Curtis issued an apology on X (formerly Twitter) on Thursday.
“My comments about Marvel were stupid and I will do better,” the “Freaky Friday” star wrote.
“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,” she added.
Curtis, who has never appeared in a Marvel movie, previously shaded 2022’s “Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness” while praising her own multiverse film, “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”
“Is it JUST me? Does it seem STRANGE that our tiny movie that could and did and continues to do ##1movieinamerica and is TRULY MARVELOUS, out marvels any Marvel movie they put out there,” Curtis wrote on Instagram, calling out the similarities between the posters for the films which came out two months apart.
She continued: “@everythingeverywheremovie has a Marvel movie coming out with a copycat poster? Is this one of those Internet feuds? All I’ll say is we would SLAY in a family feud contest @familyfeud with the Doctor Strange strangers. I MEAN WE HAVE.”
In a follow-up post, Curtis applauded “Everything Everywhere All at Once” for its “deep beating heart and brilliant visual treats” and its “fantastic performances.” She said the movie — which also stars Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan — “cost less” than the “Doctor Strange” sequel.
Curtis took another shot at the superhero flick with a behind-the-scenes video of her doing a stunt in her movie.
“No green screen here other multi verse wannabe movies. Real people. Real places. Old school,” she wrote.
In a July 2022 interview with People, Curtis clarified that she “has “nothing against Marvel as an entity.”
“I’ve seen a lot of Marvel movies,” she explained. “What I was talking about is that ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ was a little movie that could … and [we] were able to tell a multiverse story that really touched people. What I was trying to talk about was it doesn’t have to be a Marvel movie in order to be a spectacle and to really move you.”
Curtis also said that she would “of course” work with Marvel in the future, though she doesn’t expect to ever get a call from them.
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” made $143.4 million worldwide on a $14 million budget. It won seven Academy Awards, including Best Supporting Actress for Curtis.
Meanwhile, “Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness” starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Elizabeth Olsen grossed $955 million worldwide on a $350 million budget, making it the fourth-highest grossing movie of 2022.
In 2023, Marvel released “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” and “The Marvels,” which both flopped at the box office by MCU standards.
However, the franchise is rebounding with “Deadpool and Wolverine,” which has already grossed over $545 million worldwide since its theatrical release on Friday.
