Are Marvel actors stars? This is the question driving Hollywood right now. While Quentin Tarantino decided, responding in the negative, Samuel L. Jackson responded this week on the set of the program. the view.
“It’s not controversial for me to say that these actors are stars. Chadwick Boseman is Black Panther. You can’t refute that. He’s a movie star,” he explained.
And to add: “I’d rather be Nick Fury than make movies to hope to get Oscars for them.”
“Captain America is the star”
Quentin Tarantino was outraged last week, in full promotion of his book cinema speculation, against the “Marvelization” of Hollywood. on the podcast 2 bears, 1 holdThe director had estimated that the actors who embodied the main roles in Marvel films “were not stars”, because their role eclipsed them.
“Not all of these actors who became famous playing these characters are movie stars,” he said. “Captain America is the star. Or Thor is the star, it’s these franchise characters that become stars.”
“I do not hate them”
Tarantino, a huge comic book reader himself, has already slipped references to Marvel works, such as the Silver Surfer, into his movies. If the director doesn’t hate Marvel movies, he says he’s tired of his pervasiveness on the Hollywood scene.
“I don’t hate them. It’s true. But I don’t like them. They’re the only things that seem to be happening right now that seem to be generating excitement among the fans,” he previously explained to conclude. : “There’s really no room for anything else. That’s my problem.”
Source: BFM TV
