Jamie Lee Curtis Vows to “Do Better” After Saying MCU Was in a “Bad” Phase

Jamie Lee Curtis has reached out to Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige and vowed to choose her words about the MCU more carefully.

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The Oscar winner went viral on X (formerly Twitter) this week after a Comic-Con interview with MTV where she was asked to name what phase the Marvel Cinematic Universe is in at the moment. “Bad,” she replied.

Curtis has now issued an apology. On X, she wrote to fans that her comments about Marvel were “stupid.” She added, “I will do better. 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.”

Deadpool & Wolverine star Ryan Reynolds jokingly quoted Curtis’ follow-up post and said: “Wait, is everyone expected to apologize for slamming Marvel post-Endgame?”

Curtis has some history regarding her feud with the MCU. In 2022, after appearing in Everything Everywhere All at Once — a role that won her the best supporting actress Oscar — Curtis made various social media posts comparing the film to Marvel’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness . Both works are centered around the complications of the multiverse.

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She first accused Doctor Strange of mimicking artwork, writing : “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 @everythingeverywheremovie has a Marvel movie coming out with a copycat poster? Is this one of those Internet feuds?”

In another, she lauded Everything Everywhere All at Once , saying it “cost less than the entire craft service budget on Doctor Strange and/or any other Marvel movie.” She later clarified to People magazine about the posts: “I have nothing against Marvel as an entity … 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.”

The MCU’s latest blockbuster Deadpool & Wolverine crossed $550 million at the global box office just five days after its release, no doubt quashing some of the concerns from Marvel bosses after low grosses with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and The Marvels .

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