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Samuel L. Jackson participated in a profession retrospective interview for GQ journal and admitted that he was shocked by the velocity wherein Marvel raced by way of his preliminary 9 image deal. Jackson agreed to Marvel’s preliminary supply to play Nick Fury in 9 films, beginning with a cameo look on the finish of 2008’s “Iron Man.” He has since starred in a dozen Marvel films, together with a number of “Avengers” films and standalone tentpoles like “Iron Man 2” and “The Marvels.”
“I knew I had a 9 image deal,” Jackson stated. “(Marvel Studios president) Kevin (Feige) stated that: ‘We’ll give you a 9 image deal.’ How lengthy do it’s important to keep alive to make 9 films? It isn’t the quickest course of on the planet. I did not know they had been going to make 9 films in like two and a half years. That is type of loopy! Oh shit, I am utilizing up my contracts. It labored out.”
Jackson beforehand informed the Los Angeles Occasions that he is by no means misplaced curiosity in his Nick Fury function and that he’d reasonably make billion dollar-grossing Marvel films than win Oscars or chase down Oscar-baiting roles.
“As jaded as I wished to be about it, you already know pondering, ‘Effectively, I ought to have gained an Oscar for this or ought to have gained for that and it did not occur,’ as soon as I acquired over it a few years in the past, it wasn’t an enormous deal for me,” Jackson stated. “I all the time have enjoyable going to the Oscars. I all the time look ahead to getting a present basket for being a presenter. (Laughs) I give stuff to my kinfolk; my daughter and my spouse would take stuff out. It is cool…However in any other case, I used to be previous it.”
Jackson added, “I used to be by no means going to let the Oscars be a measure of my success or failure as an actor. My yardstick of success is my happiness: Am I happy with what I am doing? I am not doing statue-chasing films. You recognize (whispers): ‘If you happen to do that film, you will win an Oscar.’ No, thanks. I would reasonably be Nick Fury. Or having enjoyable being Mace Windu with a lightsaber in my hand.”
Jackson’s tenure because the Marvel tremendous agent additionally included headlining his very personal Disney+ sequence “Secret Invasion.” Watch Jackson’s full interview within the GQ video beneath.
Samuel L. Jackson Was Shocked by Marvel Provide for 9 Films
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