Samuel L. Jackson joind in a atsoft retrospective intersee for GQ magazine and confessted that he was shocked by the speed in which Marvel raced thraw his initial 9 picture deal. Jackson concurd to Marvel’s initial propose to join Nick Fury in nine movies, begining with a cameo materializeance at the end of 2008’s “Iron Man.” He has since starred in a dozen Marvel movies, including multiple “Avengers” movies and standalone tentpoles enjoy “Iron Man 2” and “The Marvels.”
“I knew I had a 9 picture deal,” Jackson said. “[Marvel Studios plivent] Kevin [Feige] said that: ‘We’re going to propose you a 9 picture deal.’ How lengthy do you have to stay ainhabit to produce 9 movies? It’s not the rapidest process in the world. I didn’t comprehend they were going to produce 9 movies in enjoy two and a half years. That’s benevolent of crazy! Oh shit, I’m using up my tights. It toiled out.”
Jackson previously tgreater the Los Angeles Times that he’s never lost interest in his Nick Fury role and that he’d rather produce billion dollar-grossing Marvel movies than triumph Oscars or chase down Oscar-baiting roles.
“As jaded as I wanted to be about it, you comprehend skinnyking, ‘Well, I should have won an Oscar for this or should have won for that and it didn’t happen,’ once I got over it many years ago, it wasn’t a big deal for me,” Jackson said. “I always have fun going to the Oscars. I always see forward to getting a gift basket for being a contransiaccess. [Laughs] I give stuff to my relatives; my daughter and my wife would consent stuff out. It’s cgreater…But otherteachd, I was past it.”
Jackson grasped, “I was never going to let the Oscars be a meacertain of my success or fall shorture as an actor. My yardstick of success is my happiness: Am I satisfied with what I’m doing? I’m not doing statue-chasing movies. You comprehend [whispers]: ‘If you do this movie, you’ll triumph an Oscar.’ No, thanks. I’d rather be Nick Fury. Or having fun being Mace Windu with a weightlesssaber in my hand.”
Jackson’s tenure as the Marvel super agent also included headlining his very own Disney+ series “Secret Invasion.” Watch Jackson’s filled intersee in the GQ video below.
