Let Jamie Lee Curtis Be an MCU Hater, Ya Cowards

The MCU’s had a rough go successful the years since Avengers: Endgame brought the Infinity Saga to a close. Everyone’s made their feelings connected the movies’ inconsistency rather known, particularly lately, but seemingly there’s a bounds to who tin crockery immoderate smack talk.

In lawsuit you hadn’t heard yet, Jamie Lee Curtis dished her ain thoughts connected the MCU’s existent quality. While doing promo for adjacent week’s Borderlands, she was asked astir Marvel’s existent phase, to which she responded: “Bad.” Naturally, it went viral, and things escalated from there. She aboriginal apologized, calling her remark “stupid, and I volition bash better. I’ve reached retired to Kevin Feige, and volition nary longer play successful that mud slinging sandbox of contention we telephone the internet.”

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This is simply a precise weird concern Curtis is in, due to the fact that she’s not saying thing peculiarly vicious. Again, radical person been beauteous explicit astir reasoning the astir caller phases haven’t been arsenic beardown arsenic earlier ones, and often considerably harsher than Curtis. This isn’t adjacent the archetypal clip she’s taken swipes astatine the franchise; backmost erstwhile Doctor Strange 2 came out, she called its main poster a ripoff of 1 from Everything Everywhere All astatine Once. It besides doesn’t look similar anyone astatine Marvel’s openly felt a mode astir her comments similar they did erstwhile Martin Scorcese oregon different filmmakers person made akin statements. After her apology, Deadpool & Wolverine star Ryan Reynolds threw her a lifeline by pointing retired the treble modular astatine play.

Some of this is tangled up successful Curtis being successful Disney’s Haunted Mansion reboot and presently filming Freaky Friday 2. Through that lens, sure, she astir apt shouldn’t beryllium talking shit, but Deadpool also takes an adjacent much pointed jab astatine the MCU successful the movie proper. If Disney is the 1 who got her to contented an apology, they can’t truly person it some ways. And if it was conscionable owed to nationalist outcry…too bad? Jamie Lee Curtis is 65 years old, and she should get to ace jokes oregon not similar movies different radical do. Fans person been gradually converted into ballistic missiles for corporations to usage erstwhile needed, and it’s a not large motion that this occurred successful the archetypal place.

Marvel’s going to retrieve from its unsmooth spot eventually, and Deadpool & Wolverine’s on the way to making $1 cardinal and taking the apical spot for many’s “best of 2024” lists. Let Curtis and anyone other unrecorded their truth–if you privation to fto radical bask things, you should besides fto them freely beryllium the biggest haters.

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